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Setup Script for Autogradescoper

Overview

The setup.sh file is a shell script that installs the necessary software tools and libraries when building the Docker image for the Gradescope Autograder.

Typically, you do not need to modify the setup.sh file, but you may sometimes need to adjust it to install additional dependencies or libraries.

A Typical Example

Below is a typical example of the setup.sh file for an R programming assignment. These scripts install the required software tools and libraries for the autograder and create a Python virtual environment to run the autograder.

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Install Python, R, Git, and other necessary libraries.
apt-get install -y libxml2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev
apt-get install -y python3 python3-pip python3-dev
apt-get install -y r-base
apt-get install -y git

# Create Python virtual environment
pip3 install virtualenv
virtualenv /venv
source /venv/bin/activate

# Install autogradescoper from GitHub
git clone https://github.com/hyunminkang/autogradescoper.git
cd autogradescoper
pip install -e .

This setup script assumes that the autogradescoper package is installed from the main branch of the GitHub repository to the /autogradescoper directory in the Docker image.

If you need to modify the autogradescoper source code, you can change the URL in the git clone command to your forked repository.

Adding Additional R Packages

Sometimes, you may want to install additional R packages for the autograder. You can install R packages using the install.packages() function in R from the command line.

For example, to install the package_name R package, you can use the following command:

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# Replace "package_name" with your desired R package name
R -e 'install.packages("package_name", repos="https://cran.rstudio.com")'