This repository hosts the source code corresponding to the method described in our 2016 paper published in Genome Biology, Estimating the population abundance of tissue-infiltrating immune and stromal cell populations using gene expression
To install it, the easiest is to use the R package devtools and its function install_github. To do so, open an R session and enter
install.packages(c("devtools","curl")) ##Installs devtools and the MCPcounter dependancy 'curl'
library(devtools)
install_github("ebecht/MCPcounter",ref="master", subdir="Source")
Examples on how to run the algorithm on your data are shown in the documentation ?MCPcounter.estimate