3. Installation

This version of TDA tool is developed in MATLAB 2016b and packaged in an executable function file so that it can be run from any Windows/Mac platform (even from a USB flash memory). You can find the software by one of the following ways:

1- CEEM's page on GitHub where you can also download the Matlab source code.

2- CEEM website along with description of the project and related research undergoing at CEEM

3- Researchgate project page where you can follow the project to track ongoing updates.

Please download the TDA_win.zip or TDA_mac.zip from here and unzip it in a non-shared folder (e.g. not dropbox etc.) on your own computer and keep the whole contents of the folder as deleting the original files of the software may result in its failure. If the Matlab 2016b is already installed, the TDA software will most likely run without any prerequisite. Otherwise you will need to install the Matlab Compiler Runtime version 9.1 to run the TDA application. MCR is a standalone set of shared libraries that enables the execution of compiled MATLAB applications or components on computers that do not have MATLAB installed. The MCR can be downloaded installed for free from this link (size ~900mb). Please note you need to install the version R2016b (9.1).

If you have administrator rights on your computer:

Download, unzip and run the MCR_R2016b_win64_installer.exe (for windows) or MCR_R2016b_maci64_installer.dmg.zip (for Mac) and follow the interactive install (you may need to use comment “./install” and probably your computer username and password for macOS).

To install the MATLAB Runtime as a user without administrator rights on Windows follow the steps below:

1- Use the MATLAB Runtime installer to install it on a Windows machine where you have administrator rights.

2- Copy the folder where the MATLAB Runtime was installed to the machine without administrator rights. You can compress the folder into a zip file and distribute to multiple users.

3- On the machine without administrator rights, add the mcr_root\runtime\arch directory onto the user's path environment variable (You don't need administrator rights for adding directories to a user's path environment variable).

More information can be found here. The MCR needs to be installed only once. For any additional updates of the software, it is only necessary to run the software.