Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “Create a README.md file at the root to describe the project.”

A block of code is set as follows:

/Users/macleand/Desktop/rcookbook/Ch_1/renv/library/R-4.3/aarch64-apple-darwin20/rbioinfcookbook/extdata/my_project

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

install.packages("renv")

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: “Lastly, check Open in new session.”

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