University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: RCI Posts

Research Storage feedback workshop

Join the Research Cyberinfrastructure team for a workshop dedicated to understanding how researcher’s use and need research storage at UW–Madison.

Badger R User Group: August 2026 meetup

The Cyber Infrastructure team is holding their second Badger R User Group (BRUG) meetup. Come say hello and review their new website.

Using the split, apply, combine pattern in R

Learn how to use the split, apply, combine pattern when trying to solve the problem of: one analysis, multiple datasets.

Badger R User Group soft opening 

The Cyber Infrastructure team is holding a soft launch of the new Badger R User Group (BRUG). Come say hello and tell the team what you code!

From the Notebook to the Cluster

Learn more about Part 0, a practical guide for beginning a research coding project.

Less maintenance, more science

A workflow built on three toolero functions that address drift structurally: a scaffold that doubles as a maintained source, a context-detection utility that replaces informal path patches, and a post-render hook that derives the submission script automatically.

Split, Apply, Combine

Walk through six approaches to the split-apply-combine pattern in R, from explicit column-by-column summaries to parallel execution with furrr, using the Palmer Penguins dataset as a running example.

Add alt-text to your ggplot 2 plots

This post is to help researchers adopt accessibility requirements in the easiest way possible.