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Creating impact in R from London

R Dev Day at Imperial College London

On Friday, April 26th, 2024, the central Research Software Engineering (RSE) team at Imperial College London hosted the R Dev Day at the Seminar and Learning Centre on the South Kensington Campus. This event, proposed by Dr. Heather Turner, aimed to foster collaboration among both new and experienced contributors interested in contributing to base R. I had the pleasure of co-organising this event alongside Dr. Turner and Dr. Diego Alonso Alvarez.

Python Development on M1 Macs

I recently received a new MacBook Pro for work. Great! The only catch is that Apple discontinued their Intel-based line of MacBook Pros in 2021 and their new line of laptops use the Apple silicon M-series coprocessors. This might not seem like a problem at first, but the Apple silicon processors use ARM-architecture instead of Intel's x86 architecture. For Python development, this is a potential problem because not all Python packages are installable for ARM architectures.

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Highlights from RSECon22 from the central RSE team

Overview

This year, the annual conference organised by the Society of Research Software Engineering was back on as an in-person event for the first time since 2019. This meant that for many of the college’s central RSE team it was their first opportunity to meet up with RSEs from across the country and further afield. The College was well represented, with five delegates attending from the central team along with RSEs based in specific departments, research groups and teaching staff from the Graduate School.

Fine Tuning Django User Permissions

Read the full blog post in Dan Davies's Blog.

The RSE team is involved in an increasing number of software projects requiring a front-end web app. The main advantage to having a web app element for your research software is that users can interact with it via a web browser, without having to install anything to their local machine. There are of course downsides, including the need to deploy, host and maintain software somewhere suitable. However, there is a wide range of popular frameworks to make the whole process a lot smoother.