7 Getting help with R

The most important skill you need to learn to use R well is how to get help. This is a great list of steps to try:

Getting help

This blog post explains those steps at a bit more length.

The most important step is often breaking your problem down into a small, reproducible example - a reprex in R jargon. Often, the process of making a reprex can make your problem appear more clearly to you, so you’ll solve it yourself before you even have to ask someone else!

7.1 Getting help with R problems at Grattan

The channel #r_at_grattan on Grattan Slack is a great place to get answers to R questions

This guide Package vignettes Matt, Will, others

7.2 Getting help with R problems in general

A guide to Googling well

7.3 Resources for learning R

R4DS, et al.