16.3 Getting Help
- start from first principles, make a sketch
- diagnose individual lines for expected output
- read the docs
- consider a broader on-line search. GPT-3 or stack overflow are built on prior answers
- if all else fails, build a reprex and ask in a forum like R4DS
Forums mentioned:
- R’s Special Interest Group on Geographic data email list (R-SIG-GEO)
- The GIS Stackexchange website at gis.stackexchange.com
- stackoverflow.com
- the RStudio Community, rOpenSci and the Stan forum
- GitHub, which often has discussion and issue features. See
sfnetworks
package as an example - Slack for rOpenSci and geocompx community, of which this book is a part
Demonstrating your own efforts to solve a problem publicly, and providing a reproducible example of the problem, is a way of contributing to this body of knowledge.