Building up to something

12 Feb 2019

The other day I needed to build a conda package. If you’re not familiar, it’s a language-agnostic package manager with good support for Python and R. For packaging R packages, it’s got significant advantages over the built-in mechanisms: compiled code can be distributed, users can have multiple environments with different packages and different versions of R on the same machine without interfering.


UCOSP Wrap-up

30 Nov 2012

So the semester is drawing to a close, and it’s time to reflect on the results of our work.


UCOSP Kick-off

04 Oct 2012

Last weekend was the start of the UCOSP project, which is a collaboration between about 20 Canadian universities and the open source community. It provides undergrads with the opportunity to contribute to ongoing open source projects, with the assistance and leadership of a group of mentors.