February 2018 - Dave Tang's blog

Organising computational biology projects with Cookiecutter

bioinformaticsDavoFebruary 9, 20182

Last updated: 2024/04/26 A quick guide to organizing computational biology projects has been published over 8 years ago but the main messages are still very relevant (perhaps even more so nowadays given the exponential increase in biological data). In a nutshell, computational biology projects need to be organised so that we can share and reproduce…

Compiling R with GNU Readline

RDavoFebruary 6, 20184

Updated 2018 March 23rd for R-3.4.4 I use a lot of shortcuts provided by GNU Readline. I recently compiled R without Readline support and it was almost unusable! This was because I ran into the error: configure: error: –with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available To circumvent this I compiled R by running: ./configure –with-readline=no…