Workshop on package management in R

Taught by Ritika Giri Winter Quarter of 2024 Northwestern University's Research Computing and Data Services as part of the Next Steps in R workshop series.

Getting Started

• Download the materials to your machine by clicking on the green "Code" button on the top right and selecting "Download ZIP".
• Unzip the downloaded folder, and double-click on the .RProj file to open up the R Project in RStudio.
• Open nsir-package-management.qmd and work through the materials.

Concepts

• What are packages, libraries and repositories
• How R finds packages on your machine
• Reproducible environments with renv
• Using Git with renv

Components

• README.md markdown file outlining the repository
• my_analysis_script.Rmd file as a dummy analysis script
• .Rproj folder maintaining an R Project for this directory
• nsir-package-management.qmd Quarto document with the workshop contents

Required Installs

• R and RStudio
• Packages: renv