Previous Versions of the Installation Guide

Our installation guide is updated periodically to reflect changes in course content, and changes ways to install certain programs and packages.

Here are the links to previous versions of the Installation Guide:

• 2017 edition, by Lachlan Deer, Adrian Etter, Julian Langer & Max Winkler
• 2018 edition, by Ulrich Bergmann, Ursina Schaede, Dora Simon, Carlo Zanella & Christian Zuend
• 2019 Foundations edition, by Lachlan Deer & Julian Langer
• 2020 edition, by Ulrich Bergmann, Matteo Courthoud & Lachlan Deer

Major Changes

v2021.0.1

• Update package versions for all Operating Systems
• Mac instructions using zsh rather than bash
• WSL instructions compliant with WSL2
• Uses Google Chrome and Chromedriver from WSL for webscraping via an xserver

v2020

• Migrate from Cygwin to Windows Subsystem for Linux
• Higher dependency on Homebrew to install packages for Mac
• Emphasis on installation using terminal commands rather than graphical installers to enhance reproducibility
• Remove GIS guide
• Split's installation instructions of R, RStudio and additional R packaged into separate versions

2019 Foundations edition

• Focus only on R, terminal, Git and snakemake