How to Find Help Using R Mailing Lists

The R Development Core Team actively supports four different mailing lists. At the R mailing list website, you can find up-to-date information about these lists, as well as find links to subscribe or unsubscribe from the lists. When you subscribe to a mailing list, you can choose to receive either individual e-mail messages or a daily digest.

The four important mailing lists are

R-help: This is the main R Help mailing list. Anyone can register and post messages on this list, and people discuss a wide variety of topics (for example, how to install packages, how to interpret R’s output of statistical results, or what to do in response to warnings and error messages).
R-announce: This list is for announcements about significant developments in the R code base.
R-packages: This list is where package authors can announce news about their packages.
R-devel: This is a specialist mailing list aimed at developers of functions or new R packages — in other words, serious R developers! It’s more about programming than about general topics.

Before posting a message to any of the R mailing lists, make sure that you read the posting guidelines. In particular, make sure you include a good, small, reproducible example.

In addition to these general mailing lists, you also can participate in about 20 special interest group mailing lists.

The R mailing list website also contains links to more than 20 mailing lists for special interest groups. We list them here by topic:

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