A High Energy Physics Plotting Interface

• Free software: ISC license
• Documentation: https://heppi.readthedocs.org.

Heppi is a plotting interface written in python. It uses json files as configuration files called plotcards with higly flexible syntax allowing a better handeling of the variable and the samples.

• The recomended procedure to install Heppi is trough PyPI .. code-block:

  pip install heppi
  

• For CERN users, you might need to install the package on your .local directory by adding --user option to the previous command. .. code-block:

  pip install heppi --user
  

• The dependencies will normaly be installed automatically.

• Since Heppi is based on pyROOT, ROOT env must be set

• The alternative way to install Heppi is by cloning and building the project .. code-block:

  > git clone git@github.com:yhaddad/Heppi.git
  > cd Heppi
  > pip install dependencies --user
  > make install-user
  

Let start by downloading example of root tree stored in figshare

$ wget https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1920208
$ wget https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1920200

• Heppi allows to create your own plotcard using the makeplotcard script. You can run:

  $ makeplotcard
  

1. To run heepi plotmaker you have to run the script plot

2. you can print the options of the script by typing .\plot --help

3. you have to combine the trees using rootmerge.py script

4. the commend I'm using is the follwing:

   $ ./plot -s /dir/to/merged/trees --load plotcard.json --all
   

5. if you want to print one variable in the plotcard you can replace the option --all by --variable or just -v followed by the name of the variable. example:

   $ ./plot -s /dir/to/merged/trees --load plotcard.json -v var1
   

• Produce the plotcard using a processe.json files and input root file.

• The tree name must be specified:

  $ ./makeplotcard.py --load  /path/to/root/file.root \
                      --out   plotcard.json \
                      --tree  VBFMVADumper/*VBFDiJet
  

• the * will be replaced automatically by the remaining name of the tree found in the VBFMVADumper directory.

• This is for the use of .. `flashgg`: https://github.com/cms-analysis/flashgg type dumper trees only, a more standard version will be pushed soon

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.