Appendix 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 late-July 2013, there were over 126,000 meetup groups in nearly 200 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 ...
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