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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/06/r-community.html"> Revolutions</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
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<p>R is incredible software for statistics and data science. But while the bits and bytes of software are an essential component of its usefulness, software needs a <strong>community</strong> to be successful. And that's an area where R really shines, as Shannon Ellis explains in this <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ropensci.org/blog/blog/2017/06/23/community" target="_blank">lovely ROpenSci blog post</a>. For software, a thriving community offers developers, expertise, collaborators, writers and documentation, testers, agitators (to keep the community <em>and</em> software on track!), and so much more. Shannon provides links where you can find all of this in the R community:</p>
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<li><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23rstats" target="_blank">#rstats hashtag</a></strong> — a responsive, welcoming, and inclusive community of R users to interact with on Twitter</li>
<li><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://rladies.org/" target="_blank">R-Ladies</a></strong> — a world-wide organization focused on promoting gender diversity within the R community, with more than 30 local chapters</li>
<li><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://jumpingrivers.github.io/meetingsR/r-user-groups.html" target="_blank">Local R meetup groups</a></strong> — a google search may show that there's one in your area! If not, maybe consider starting one! Face-to-face meet-ups for users of all levels are incredibly valuable</li>
<li><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://rweekly.org/" target="_blank">Rweekly</a></strong> — an incredible weekly recap of all things R</li>
<li><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/" target="_blank">R-bloggers</a></strong> — an awesome resource to find posts from many different bloggers using R</li>
<li><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.datacarpentry.org/" target="_blank">DataCarpentry</a></strong> and <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://software-carpentry.org/" target="_blank">Software Carpentry</a></strong> — a resource of openly available lessons that promote and model reproducible research</li>
<li><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://stackoverflow.com/" target="_blank">Stack Overflow</a></strong> — chances are your R question has already been answered here (with additional resources for people looking for jobs)</li>
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<p>I'll add a couple of others as well:</p>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://jumpingrivers.github.io/meetingsR/events.html" target="_blank"><strong>R Conferences</strong></a> — The annual useR! conference is the major community event of the year, but there are many smaller community-led events on various topics. </li>
<li><strong>Github</strong> — there's a fantastic community of R developers on Github. There's no directory, but the list of <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/trending/developers/r?since=weekly" target="_blank">trending R developers</a> is a good place to start.</li>
<li><strong>The R Consortium</strong> — proposing or getting involved with an <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/projects" target="_blank">R Consortium project</a> is a great way to get involved with the community</li>
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<p>As I've <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/alice_data/status/868200610675400704" target="_blank">said before</a>, the R community is one of the greatest assets of R, and is an essential component of what makes R useful, easy, and fun to use. And you couldn't find a nicer and more welcoming group of people to be a part of.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://ropensci.org/blog/blog/2017/06/23/community" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="R community" title="R community" src="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b01b7c905364a970b-800wi"></a></p>
<p>To learn more about the R community, be sure to check out Shannon's blog post linked below.</p>
<p>ROpenSci Blog: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ropensci.org/blog/blog/2017/06/23/community" target="_blank">Hey! You there! You are welcome here</a></p>
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