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.