Independent Study to consolidate this week

Core: Supporting Information 1

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.