explain how to get BIDS converted sample data

[SophieHerbst]

What is the intended way to get the sample data in BIDS?

I tried make fetch, but it misses some dependencies:

sophie@Sophies-MacBook-Pro-2:~/repos/mne-study-template$ make fetch python ./tests/download_test_data.py --dataset= Traceback (most recent call last): File "./tests/download_test_data.py", line 5, in import datalad.api as dl ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'datalad' make: *** [fetch] Error 1

How about a link to https://mne.tools/mne-bids/auto_examples/convert_mne_sample.html#sphx-glr-auto-examples-convert-mne-sample-py ? However, this crashes because of the emptyroom, see here.

[jasmainak]

A link to the example would be great @SophieHerbst ! Thanks

[jasmainak]

About datalad you can install by using pip. And you will also need to install git-annex.

[SophieHerbst]

thanks @jasmainak these instructions should clearly be available with the template. is getting the data through fetch documented somewhere on the mne site?

[sappelhoff]

Hi @SophieHerbst, have you seen the documentation in CONTRIBUTING.md?

• README --> contains docs for users
• CONTRIBUTING --> contains docs for developers

We do/did not expect users to interact with datalad, that's why we pushed the respective information to the CONTRIBUTING guide.

[SophieHerbst]

Hi @sappelhoff, thanks, this is what I was looking for. But I would not look into contributing if I just want to learn MNE and get the tutorial running. I think, we should explain how to get the data in the readme for non-expert users.

[jasmainak]

It's true we don't have a single "example" to get the user started. The fetchers are really meant for the contributors. However, if there is interest and resources in Neurospin, I am not opposed to the idea of turning them into examples which can be run on sphinx-gallery.