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Advancing R at the University

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A head and shoulders photo of Martin.  A male with short brown hair and a short full beard wearing a collared shirt standing in a white walled office with vertical windows.
Martin Herrerias Azcue, 5 Aug 2025

Meet Martin Herrerias Azcue, Research Software Engineer in Research IT and one of the leads of the R User Group at The University of Manchester (R.U.M.). The group serves as a hub for R users, providing a lively, engaged community where everyone is welcome to ask questions and to share their R knowledge.

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Thinking Beyond Scripts: Build an R Package from the Ground Up

22 May 2025 12:00 — 13:00

Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street & Online via MS Teams

Registration is NOW CLOSED


The R User Group at the University of Manchester invites you to learn how to build a simple R package (the easy way).
Our expert speaker is Toni Price a Research Software Engineer with a background in Statistics.



AI Assisted Coding in RStudio

Anthony Evans, 29 Nov 2024

Research Software Engineer Anthony Evans delves into how cutting-edge AI tools powered by advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) can help deliver contextually relevant assistance and suggestions, enhancing your RStudio programming workflow.

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R.U.M Talk - Getting Started with Deep Learning in R

27 Jun 2024 12:00 — 13:00

University Place, 5th Floor, Room 5.205

Registration is NOW CLOSED


The University of Manchester R User Group will be hosting a talk on Getting Started with Deep Learning in R.



What Can the Apps Team Do For You?

Anja Le Blanc and team, 12 Sep 2023

Over the last 12 months, the Research Application Support team has worked on over 350 support tickets from researchers across the University. Many are very much business as usual but some of them can be quite tricky or fun to work on.

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Research Software Engineering Summer Update

Adrian Harwood, 21 Jun 2023

In May Adrian Harwood, Head of Research Software Engineering (RSE), posted the first part of his update on the latest improvements to the RSE department. In his second part he summarises the more external facing improvements delivered by the RSE Levelling-Up Programme.

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R User Group Needs You!

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Kamilla Kopec-Harding, 24 Feb 2023

The recently relaunched R User Group (R.U.M) is looking for volunteers to form an organising team to help plan and deliver R User Group activities at the University.

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R User Group Returns

Kamilla Kopec-Harding, 25 Jan 2023

The popular R user group at the University of Manchester (R.U.M) has recently been relaunched with a new online home - “The R User Group channel “ on Microsoft Teams.

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Shiny App Pilot Service Launched

David Mawdsley, 4 Oct 2021

If you're an R user, Shiny lets you build interactive web apps to share your work with the world. Find out how we can help you do it with our new Shiny pilot service.

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Users Needed for our Redeveloped Condor Pool!

ritnews, 29 Mar 2019

The Condor Pool is a high-throughput computing (HTC) resource freely available to all researchers at the University of Manchester. The pool largely comprises of many of the PCs around campus located in teaching clusters. At night and at weekends, these are rebooted into Linux and used to run large numbers of computational jobs.

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UoM R Users Group Meeting

ritnews, 6 Nov 2018

Join fellow R users at the next meeting of the University of Manchester R user group on Wednesday 28th November from 12:00 -13:00 at University Place room no 3.205. Come along, bring your lunch, and meet R users from across the university.

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Letting R Sparkle

ritnews, 27 Jul 2018

It may be the summer but our team is as busy as ever! David Mawdsley (Research Software Engineer) is putting together a new workshop on Shiny. This is an R package that makes it easy to make interactive web apps using R.

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