Sets up a virtual environment to use for PLP (can be conda or python)

configurePython(envname = "PLP", envtype = NULL, condaPythonVersion = "3.11")

Arguments

envname

A string for the name of the virtual environment (default is 'PLP')

envtype

An option for specifying the environment as'conda' or 'python'. If NULL then the default is 'conda' for windows users and 'python' for non-windows users

condaPythonVersion

String, Python version to use when creating a conda environment

Details

This function creates a virtual environment that can be used by PatientLevelPrediction and installs all the required package dependancies. If using python, pip must be set up.