A. Real-Life Resources

One of the greatest aspects of R is the surrounding community, both online and in person. This includes Web resources like Twitter and Stack Overflow, meetups and textbooks.

A.1 Meetups

Meetup.com is a fantastic resource for finding like-minded people and learning experiences for just about anything including programming, statistics, video games, cupcakes and beer. They are so pervasive that as of early 2017, there were over 260,000 meetup groups in 184 countries. Data meetups draw particularly large crowds and usually take the format of socializing, a talk for 45 to 90 minutes, and then more socializing. Meetups are not only great for learning, but also for hiring or getting hired.

R meetups are very common, although ...

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