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10 questions linked to/from How to ask question related to the use of R?
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Internet Support for Statistics Software
A discussion in fall 2010 considered the extent to which purely software-related questions would be welcome on this site. It didn't really reach a conclusion, but one useful suggestion that arose is ...
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How to answer R questions
It's inevitable that we will get lots of R questions in this forum. Should we:
Bounce them all to SO
Answer all questions, even when it's clearly programming and not statistics.
Answer the question ...
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Should we allow more computing questions
I've been thinking about whether this site should incorporate more computing questions. I think the current position of this site can be summarised by this question (which I asked!).
Why change
I ...
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Please do not migrate low quality questions
Greetings from your friendly neighbors who frequent the r tag over at StackOverflow!
We are all familiar with the fact that questions involving R will often straddle the two sites, and so a certain ...
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How much programming here?
Of course in context of R-versus-Clojure, I felt it needs external discussion.
So, I believe that there are two possible sorts of such questions:
An algorithmic question like, "How to implement X?" ...
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Library of helpful responses
Some situations come up frequently enough, especially with new users, that it seems useful to maintain a library of polite, helpful responses we can offer. Mods (and anyone else) can then copy and ...
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Shall we add "this is just a software question" to our default close reasons?
Our community-modifiable default off-topic close reasons are
Self-study questions (including textbook exercises, old exam papers, and homework) that seek to understand the concepts are welcome, but ...
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Defining clearer house rules on software-related questions
Given the various issues regarding handling of software-related questions (see here for one jumping-off point), can we curate a set of house rules that
encapsulates what Question the community would ...
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What standard should be applied in deciding whether a question requires sufficient 'statistical expertise' to be posted to CV?
The FAQ currently states:
If the language is statistically oriented (such as R, SAS, Stata,
SPSS, etc.), then decide based on the nature of your question: if it
needs statistical expertise to ...
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Should we "unclose" computing questions
Following on from this question about extending scope, should we "unclose" previous computing questions. For example,
How can I get R to stop autocompleting my quotes/parens?
What code would you put ...
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