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2 Installing PrimerMiner

Vasco Elbrecht edited this page Apr 16, 2016 · 5 revisions

Download Primer Miner

Download the latest PrimerMiner version from the releases! PrimerMiner is an R package, the R software can be download here.

Installing required packages and PrimerMiner

From within R, you can first install the packages PrimerMiner is depended on: install.packages(c("bold", "XML", "rentrez", "seqinr", "devtools"), dependencies=T)

To install PrimerMiner, run install.packages("path_to_file", repos = NULL, type="source")

Load the package with library("PrimerMiner").

You find al the commands and an executable example in the folder Sample_Data in the package data! Give it a try to familiarize you with the software and verify that it download data and works well.