Getting help
Objectives
Know your options for finding help
Understand how to create a minimal reproducible example to get better help
Live coding/discussion: options for finding help
--help
flagman
pages?
in R- Package websites (found with google or through CRAN page)
- These often are the same material as help files + vignettes, but easier to read and examples are rendered on web
- StackOverflow
- People aren’t always the friendliest, but making a reprex helps you get good answers
- Minimal reproducible examples with
reprex
- Demo RStudio addin
- ChatGPT
- Not recommended for beginners!
- Sometimes (~50% by some estimates) gives the wrong answer, difficult to spot mistakes if you’re a beginner
Citation
BibTeX citation:
@online{scott2023,
author = {Scott, Eric and Diaz, Renata and Guo, Jessica and Riemer,
Kristina},
title = {Getting Help},
date = {2023},
url = {https://cct-datascience.github.io/repro-data-sci//lessons/11-getting-help/notes.html},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.8411612},
langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Scott, Eric, Renata Diaz, Jessica Guo, and Kristina Riemer. 2023.
“Getting Help.” Reproducibility & Data Science in R.
2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8411612.