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Published inOct 2023
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Dan MacLean
Dan MacLean
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Professor Dan MacLean has a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Cambridge and gained postdoctoral experience in genomics and bioinformatics at Stanford University in California. Dan is now an honorary professor at the School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia. He has worked in bioinformatics and plant pathogenomics, specializing in R and Bioconductor, and has developed analytical workflows in bioinformatics, genomics, genetics, image analysis, and proteomics at the Sainsbury Laboratory since 2006. Dan has developed and published software packages in R, Ruby, and Python, with over 100,000 downloads combined.
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We will use renv to manage packages in a project-specific way. To use renv to install packages, you will first need to install the renv package. No specific R version seems to be needed for renv, though it’s a good idea to use the latest version of R. renv will automatically record the version of R that you used when you start working with it on a project. Note also that you shouldn’t use renv directly in the home directory, only in project-level directories. You can see more information on this working structure in the Setting up an R project directory and Using the renv package to create a project-specific set of packages recipes.

You can do this by running the following command in your R console:

  1. Install renv:
    install.packages("renv")
  2. Next, you will need to create a new renv environment for your project by running the following command:
    renv::init()

This will create a new directory called ".renv" in your...

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Professor Dan MacLean has a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Cambridge and gained postdoctoral experience in genomics and bioinformatics at Stanford University in California. Dan is now an honorary professor at the School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia. He has worked in bioinformatics and plant pathogenomics, specializing in R and Bioconductor, and has developed analytical workflows in bioinformatics, genomics, genetics, image analysis, and proteomics at the Sainsbury Laboratory since 2006. Dan has developed and published software packages in R, Ruby, and Python, with over 100,000 downloads combined.
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