University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: RCI Posts

UW–Madison Posit Day: AI apps & dashboards

Join the Research Cyberinfrastructure team on September 17 for Posit Day, where topics related to Shiny and Querychat packages will be discussed.

Reproducibility with ir

ir runs R scripts and renders (or previews) Quarto documents that declare their own requirements. Learn more about this from an expert on the Data Science team.

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.