Technical requirements

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

1. Install renv:

   install.packages("renv")

2. Create a new renv environment:

   renv::init()

   This will create a new directory called .renv in your current project directory.

3. You can then install packages with the following:

   renv::install_packages()

4. You can also use the renv package manager to install Bioconductor packages by running the following command:

   renv::install("bioc::package name")

5. For example, to install the Biobase package, you would run the following:

   renv::install("bioc::Biobase")

6. You can use renv to install development packages from GitHub with this command:

   renv::install("user name/repo name")

7. For example, to install the user danmaclean package rbioinfcookbook, you would run the following...