The changing nature of R resources 

 There was a time that the only place to find  R  help was through the  R-help listserv . But things have changed pretty drastically in just the last year or so as R has gained users from all different disciplines. I wanted to just point out a few resources that I have found useful over the last few months. 

 The  #rstats   hashtag  on Twitter has a good following and a number of consistent contributors. If you already use Twitter, this is a great way to hear about interesting new applications of R or the growing number of R tutorials and meetups ( Los Angeles  and  New York  have already had a few well attended meetups).   

 Partially born from the #rstats group is the  R tag  on  StackOverflow , a website dedicated to asking and answering programming questions. The R questions have only recently started to appear on StackOverflow, but if it takes off, it might be a smarter way to match up R users who need help and R experts who can help. The site has voting on answers so that unhelpful or repetitive answers will be weeded out. And since all of this is on one website, searching through the questions is quite a bit easier than trying to track down an R-help thread from 2004. Exciting stuff.