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Published inOct 2023
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Dan MacLean
Dan MacLean
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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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Using the renv package to create a project-specific set of packages

In the context of software development, an environment refers to a specific set of dependencies and software versions that is used to run a particular application or project. They are useful for avoiding conflicts between different projects that may require different versions of the same package, and for ensuring that the application runs consistently across different development, test, and production environments. The renv R package is a dependency management tool for R projects. It allows the user to create a snapshot of the packages and versions used in a project so that others can easily reproduce the same environment. It also helps in keeping the package’s version consistent across different machines and different team members working on the same project. It can help to avoid package version conflicts and can also help in maintaining the reproducibility of the project results. It is particularly useful...

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R Bioinformatics Cookbook - Second Edition
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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