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This site provides resources for conducting population genetic analyses in R using existing packages.
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Any member of the R user community proficient in population genetics is welcome to contibute to this site. See here for instructions on how to contribute workflow vignettes using R markdown.
This site was developed during the [Population Genetics in R hackathon] held at NESCent March 16-20, 2015.
The content of this resource is authored in Markdown and R markdown documents, which are rendered to HTML and published to a Github Pages-hosted static website. The rendering requires a complex software environment (R, a variety of R packages, TeX/LaTeX, pandoc, etc). To allow this to run as consistently as possible between someone's local machine and the Continuous Integration (CI) platform (currently Circle CI) that automatically builds and deploys the website upon changes, the rendering is done from within a Docker container that has everything preinstalled (see the Dockerfile).
As a consequence, contributors need not worry about installing the numerous necssary software components themselves, but to build the site locally, one has to have docker set up to run. See Docker installation guides, then click on the "Installation" tab and choose your OS to learn about how to get Docker installed and running on your system.
In addition to Docker, building the HTML content locally requires the
ability to run GNU make.
For further details on the mechanics of the build and deploy process, see the documentation in the top-level Makefile.