Get started

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Welcome

Welcome to the Bioconductor community!

This guide details how to install the latest release of Bioconductor on your computer.

Pre-requisites

Install R

The current release of Bioconductor is version 3.16; it works with version 4.2. Users of older versions must update their installation to take advantage of new features and to access packages that have been added to Bioconductor since the last release.

Follow the instructions for your operating system in this episode of the Carpentries lesson “Introduction to data analysis with R and Bioconductor”. The page also contains information to check which version of you are using; if you already have the correct version, you may not need to do anything!

Install the BiocManager package

The BiocManager package is a convenient tool distributed on the CRAN repository to install and update Bioconductor packages.

To install the package, type the following in an console:

> install.packages("BiocManager")

Install the current Bioconductor release

To install the latest version of Bioconductor core packages, type the following in an console:

> BiocManager::install(version = "3.16")

Check your installation

To check your installation, restart your session, and type the following in the console:

> BiocManager::version()
[1] '3.16'

Final words

Congratulations! You are ready to install the latest version of more Bioconductor packages!

Last updated: 2022-11-29 (Last compiled: 2022-12-01)