On test pecan there are two locations you should know about.
First is your home directory home/ - this is the home directory that was automatically generated for you. You don’t want to store anything there except your R library because it doesn’t actually have a lot of space.
The second is /fs/data3/ which is a shared directory among all the pecan serves.
You want to make a directory in /fs/data3/ with your username as the name.
For example, you can see my directory ecowdery is in /fs/data3.
This is where you will put pecan. If you want to access pecan from your home directory, you can create a symlink.
Within your directory in /fs/data3/ you need to git clone in your fork of pecan.
This means that you need to make an SSH key (which I’m assuming you already know how to do) and add it to your github account online.
Then you can get the address of your fork of pecan from the github website. Make sure to use the SSH address.
After the files are finished moving over, inside the pecan directory run make. Or if you prefer to use Rstudio, at test.pecan.bu.edu/rstudio create a project for pecan and run build.
Pecan probably won’t build the first time you run it. You will need to install some packages along the way. I’m not sure why all the packages aren’t downloaded automatically - I wasn’t involved with writing the make file.
Another person in our lab, Hamze, just recently installed and built pecan on the test-pecan server. If you run into problems with the installation, post your questions in the main pecan slack chat and hopefully we will be able to answer your questions quickly.