Virtual environments

Virtual environments create isolated and sel-contained workspaces, allowing us to manage project-specific dependencies separatedly from system-wide installation. This isollation has several benefits:

• Avoid dependency conflicts: prevents interferences between project-specific and system-wide dependenciesm, such as common erors related to version mismatches.

• Transparency and Open Science: Ensures that others can replicate your results and reproduce your analysis reliably.

To create and activate your virtual environment, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the directory where you want to create the environment using the cd command in the terminal.

2. Create the virtual environment:

    python3 -m venv <your_environment_name>
   

3. Activate the virtual environment:

    source /path/to/environment/bin/activate
   

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