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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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Using the here package to simplify working with paths

The here package in R is used for managing file paths in a consistent and platform-independent manner. One of the main advantages of using this package is that it allows the user to easily navigate and manipulate file paths without having to worry about the specific file structure of their operating system. The package also provides a number of useful functions for creating and managing directories, which can be particularly useful when working with complex file structures.

The here package allows for more reliable and reproducible code. When working with file paths, it is common to use the setwd() function to set the working directory. However, this can lead to issues when trying to run the same code on different machines or platforms. The here package addresses this problem by providing a consistent way to specify file paths, regardless of the operating system.

The here package also provides a way to handle project-specific...

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Published in: Oct 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837634279

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Dan MacLean

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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