Guides

Welcome to the guides page.

These guides are aimed at members and students at our research group, and in general does not fit in in the blog section. However, they might still be of help to others who face similar problems. We belive this workflow is simple and efficient for beginners.

The first section (Setup) is intended to aid in setting up the necessary software to work with R efficiently.

The second section (New project) showcases a workflow I prefer when starting new projects.

And the third section (Collaborate) shows a suggested workflow when working with others on the same project.

Setup

Setup guide

This guide is intended to help new members of our research group get their environments up and running, or old members who need to get new hardware up and running.

Intel or Apple Silicon

Before we move on, you need to determine if your Mac uses Intel or Apple Silicon.

Installing Homebrew

Now it’s time to install Homebrew. Homebrew is a packet manager, and you can use it as a command in your terminal to install other programs needed for development, including…

Installing gh-cli

Now, we will use brew to install the github command-line program, gh-cli. This command line program will allow you to login, sync, and clone the repositories you have access…

Installing R

Now, it’s time to install R.

Installing RStudio

Now, it’s finally time to install RStudio. Go to https://posit.co, and click on “Download Rstudio”. Don’t click the button that says “Download Rstudio Server”, but use the…