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:

Install renv:

install.packages("renv")

Create a new renv environment:

renv::init()

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

You can then install packages with the following:

renv::install_packages()

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

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

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

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

You can use renv to install development packages from GitHub like this:

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

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