Day 3

Day 3:

1. Managing R dependencies with renv
2. Sharing your data

Does the package renv sound familiar to you?

😯 I’ve heard of it

👍 I’ve used it

👏 I use it all the time

❤️I don’t have a clue

Excersise

Restore an environment

1. Download this reproducible project.

2. Open the project and run renv::status() in the R console. What’s the status of the packages?

3. Run renv::restore() in the R console and proceed.

4. Run renv::status() again to check that the project is in a consistent state.

5. Render analysis/report.Rmd to make sure that it worked.

If you work with data, what’s the typical size?

😯 A few megabytes (less than 100 Mb per file).

👍 A lot of small files (more than 50 Gb in total).

👏 Chunky files (more than 100 Mb).

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Preparations for day 4:

1. Reproducible computational environment with Docker
   • Follow the instructions here
   • Make sure your docker installation works!