Installation and Setup¶

RISK is available on PyPI and supports Python 3.8 or later on major operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux). Install the latest release with:

pip install risk-network --upgrade

To install from source:

git clone https://github.com/riskportal/risk.git
cd network
pip install .
pip install -e .  # for editable/development install

Importing RISK¶

Verify the installation and import the package:

import risk as r
print(f"RISK version: {r.__version__}")

The core functionality is accessed through the RISK class:

from risk import RISK

For Jupyter notebooks, enable inline plotting:

%matplotlib inline

RISK provides modular access to clustering, statistics, and visualization components. Initialize it to start analysis:

Parameters:

verbose (bool): Controls whether log messages are printed. If True, log messages are printed to the console. Defaults to True.

risk = RISK(verbose=True)