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# 6A. What does an RSE do?

## Participants
Nicholas Tierney (nicholas.tierney@gmail.com)
Muriel Buri
Thierry Onkelinx
Kim Martin
Anna Krystalli (a.krystalli@sheffield.ac.uk)
Dorothea Hug Peter

## Thoughts and Ideas

What is the path to a research software engineer?

A brief summary of how Nick + Anna end up as an RSE:

- People starting out in research
- Find that they really enjoy software
- Focus on doing research related work in software


What sort of things do RSEs do?

- provide templates for analysis
    - say an rmarkdown template to create official PDF/html reports
        - https://github.com/inbo/inbomd
- Building tools/R packages to perform statistical analysis
- checklist for analysis
    - https://inbo.github.io/checklist/
- storing / sharing data in an open format under version control
    - https://ropensci.github.io/git2rdata/


How do you get started as an RSE?

- Helping to teach existing software
- You don't need to have a software engineering background - sure it is helpful, but it is not a necessary



Talk from Roger Peng, "From tapply to tidyverse"

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=roger+peng+from+tapply+to+tidyverse