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. 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...