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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="https://blog.rstudio.com/2017/09/14/rstudio-community/"> RStudio Blog</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>We’re excited to announce <a rel="nofollow" href="http://community.rstudio.com/" target="_blank">community.rstudio.com</a>, a new site for discussions about RStudio, the tidyverse, and friends. To begin with, we’re focussing on three main areas:</p>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://discourse.rstudio.org/c/tidyverse" target="_blank">The Tidyverse</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://discourse.rstudio.org/c/shiny" target="_blank">Shiny</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://discourse.rstudio.org/c/rstudio-ide" target="_blank">RStudio IDE</a></li>
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<p>We expect to launch category in the near future for RStudio admins. This will be a place to coordinate knowledge about best practices for installing, configuring, and managing RStudio products, and for running R in production. Stay tuned for more details!</p>
<h2>What is communty.rstudio.com for?</h2>
<p>It’s easiest to say what community.rstudio.com is not: it’s not a replacement for Stack Overflow, GitHub, or our premium support services:</p>
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<p>If you have a precisely and clearly defined question (and accompanying<br>
<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tidyverse.org/help/#reprex" target="_blank">reprex</a>), you should still ask it on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/r" target="_blank">Stack Overflow</a>.</p>
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<p>If you have discovered a bug in an R package, you should still file an<br>
issue on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://github.com/tidyverse" target="_blank">GitHub</a>.</p>
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<p>If you’re a customer with a commercial license for a Professional products,<br>
you should continue to report Pro product issues as described in our<br>
<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.rstudio.com/about/support-agreement/" target="_blank">support agreement</a>.</p>
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<p>The goal of community.rstudio.com is to provide a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://community.rstudio.com/guidelines" target="_blank">friendly space</a> for discussions that don’t quite fit into the above categories. It’s a great place to send your friends who are intimidated by Stack Overflow, or to go to if you’re not sure whether or not you’ve found a bug. We expect that it will gradually supplant our existing google groups like shiny-discuss and ggplot2.</p>
<p>RStudio employees will frequent the discussions, but we won’t have time to answer every question. We will ensure that discussions remain <a rel="nofollow" href="http://community.rstudio.com/guidelines" target="_blank">friendly and professional</a>, but our goal is to foster an environment where the RStudio community can help one another.</p>
<h2>Getting the ball rolling</h2>
<p>The RStudio forums are a community site, and a community site is nothing without a community! In order to generate some initial momentum, we’re going to be running four limited-time promotions:</p>
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<p>Joe Cheng (developer of Shiny), Hadley Wickham (me), and Garrett Grolemund<br>
(RStudio master instructor) will do <a rel="nofollow" href="http://community.rstudio.com/t/office-hours-with-hadley-joe-garrett/46" target="_blank">weekly office hours</a>.<br>
We’ll each be online for at least one hour per week, and will spend that<br>
time answering your questions.</p>
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<p>If you post in the first month, you’ll get a custom “founding member” badge<br>
for your <a rel="nofollow" href="http://community.rstudio.com/" target="_blank">community.rstudio.com</a> profile.</p>
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<p>Each week for the next month we’ll recognize a few of the most helpful<br>
participants, and send them a sticker pack and t-shirt. Post once during the<br>
week to be eligible.</p>
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<p>Each month for the next six months we’ll select one person who we feel has<br>
been particularly helpful to the community, and send them a signed copy of<br>
R4DS and an RStudio t-shirt of their choice.</p>
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<p>Depending on how things go, we might keep doing the prize packs for longer, but you should participate soon in order to maximise your chances of a sweet prize!</p>
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