Independent Study to consolidate this week

Core: Supporting Information 1

Published

24 August, 2025

Before starting work on your strand specific data analysis. Ensure you have EITHER:

🎬 Set up the Virtual Desktop Service and been able to use it

OR

🎬 Updated R
🎬 Updated RStudio.
Install package building tools

🎬 Windows Install Rtools

🎬 Mac install Xcode from Mac App Store
🎬 Installed packages: devtools, tidyverse, BiocManager, readxl

You might want to consider getting a GitHub account and applying for student benefits so that you can use GitHub co-pilot. GitHub copilot is an “AI pair programmer that offers autocomplete-style suggestions as you code”. GitHub Copilot is available as an opt-in integration with RStudio.

Read more about GitHub Copilot integration with RStudio
🎬 Create a GitHub account
🎬 Apply for student benefits. You will need to upload an image of your student id, use your institutional email address and you will be required to use two factor authentication.

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Before starting work on your strand specific data analysis. Ensure you have 
EITHER:

-   🎬 Set up the [Virtual Desktop Service](https://www.york.ac.uk/it-services/tools/vds/) 
    and been able to use it


OR

-   🎬 [Updated R](https://www.r-project.org/)

-   🎬 [Updated RStudio](https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/). 

-   Install package building tools

    🎬 Windows Install
    [Rtools](https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/rtools43/rtools.html)

    🎬 Mac install [Xcode from Mac App
    Store](https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12)

-   🎬 Installed packages: **`devtools`**, **`tidyverse`**, **`BiocManager`**, 
     **`readxl`**



You might want to consider getting a GitHub account and applying for 
student benefits so that you can use GitHub co-pilot. GitHub copilot is an 
“AI pair programmer that offers autocomplete-style suggestions as you code”. 
GitHub Copilot is available as an opt-in integration with RStudio.

-    Read more about [GitHub Copilot integration 
     with RStudio](https://docs.posit.co/ide/user/ide/guide/tools/copilot.html)

-   🎬 Create a [GitHub account](https://github.com/)

-   🎬 Apply for [student
    benefits](https://education.github.com/discount_requests/application). 
    You will need to upload an image of your student id, use your institutional 
    email address and you will be required to use two factor authentication.