R Resources Community

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name: r-resources-community
description: R community resources and help. Use for finding R community forums and support.
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# R Community

Forums, help, and community resources.

## Getting Help

### Stack Overflow
- Tag: [r]
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/r

### Posit Community
- https://forum.posit.co/
- RStudio, Shiny, tidyverse questions

### R-help Mailing List
- https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

## Social

### Mastodon
- #RStats hashtag
- fosstodon.org, mastodon.social

### Twitter/X
- #RStats hashtag
- @hadleywickham, @juliasilge, @drob

### Reddit
- r/rstats
- r/RStudio

### Discord
- R for Data Science Community
- https://r4ds.io/join

## Conferences

### useR!
- Annual R conference
- https://user2024.r-project.org/

### rstudio::conf (posit::conf)
- Annual Posit conference
- Talks available on YouTube

### R/Medicine, R/Pharma, R/Finance
- Domain-specific conferences

## Local Groups

### R-Ladies
- https://rladies.org/
- Global network for gender minorities

### R User Groups
- https://www.meetup.com/pro/r-user-groups/
- Local meetups worldwide

## Contributing

### CRAN
- Submit packages
- https://cran.r-project.org/

### GitHub
- Contribute to tidyverse, r-lib
- Report issues, submit PRs

### R Consortium
- https://www.r-consortium.org/
- Working groups and projects