Summer Tech Update Downtime: August 9 9:00AM-5:00PM
On Saturday, August 9th, all SSCC servers will be offline for our semiannual process where we update all of our servers and software. New software versions include R 4.5.1 and Stata 19.
R and Julia users will probably need to reinstall all the packages you use after the update. Python users, we strongly recommend you create your own conda environment so your code will not be broken by updates to the system environment.
ResearchDrive Migration in Progress
The migration of data from SSCC storage to ResearchDrive continues–an essential cost-saving step in today’s fiscal environment. If you’ve received an invitation to migrate your data, please act on it. It will become mandatory eventually. If you haven’t received an invitation yet but are ready to go, reach out to the Help Desk and we’ll make it happen!
Faculty, keep in mind that graduate students are not eligible for their own ResearchDrive space. Even if you don’t have substantial data storage needs, consider requesting your ResearchDrive space so you can make it available to your graduate student collaborators. Graduate students, talk to your advisor or another faculty member or PI about using their ResearchDrive.
For all the details, including how to request space and how to use it once you have it, see Using ResearchDrive at the SSCC.
August Training
The SSCC will offer our usual R and Stata training in late August. These workshops are a great opportunity for incoming grad students to learn vital skills, so if you are in touch with these students please make sure they know about them. But they’re also good for graduate students who are ready to start doing research, veteran researchers who want to learn a new statistical package, or anyone looking to broaden their skillset.
Revised Data Wrangling in R
August’s training will be the first to use our newly revised Data Wrangling in R curriculum. It includes more examples, more exercises, expanded coverage of character vectors and restructuring data, and improvements based on four years of experience teaching the previous version. It’s also available online so you can learn how to wrangle data in R at any time.
Windows 11 Migration
Microsoft will officially end support for Windows 10 in October, and any computer still running it will be vulnerable at that point. The SSCC’s migration to Windows 11 is almost complete, but we will be reaching out to the owners of the few computers we haven’t been able to update automatically (typically laptops that aren’t on very often). If you still have a personal computer running Windows 10, now is the time to upgrade or replace it.