R help is on the way

Whether beginner or professional, every R user needs help one day and wants to ask specific questions. Also, the inbuilt R help and documentation are really great; there are several more ways to get help from other users. Thanks to the ever growing popularity of R, there are now a variety of all kinds of forums, websites, FAQs, and help pages. Of course, there are endless groups and places on the well-known social networks, but we will focus on autonomous pages in the following. Let's start with the question and answer sites.

Getting questions and answers

The biggest question and answer network is surely Stack Exchange. There are currently 148 different questions and answers sites under its roof.

Stack Overflow (Stack Exchange)

The official site for Stack Overflow is http://stackoverflow.com/. The most popular question and answer page for all kinds of programmers is Stack Overflow. This page is part of Stack Exchange, a big question and answer network. In addition to the...