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<\/p>\nFLASH MOB #2 TO POPULATE STACKOVERFLOW.COM WITH R QUESTIONS
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>From: The R Flashmob Project (Don’t know R yet? Learn by watching: R Video Tutorial 1<\/a>, R Video Tutorial 2<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FLASH MOB #2 TO POPULATE STACKOVERFLOW.COM WITH R QUESTIONS >From: The R Flashmob Project >Subject: R Flashmob #2 > >You are invited to take part in R Flashmob, the project that makes the >world a better place by posting helpful questions and answers about the >R statistical language to the programmer’s Q & A site […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7,16,15],"tags":[75,1208,70],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gossip","category-ideas","category-tools","tag-flashmob","tag-r","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-gO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n>Subject: R Flashmob #2
\n>
\n>You are invited to take part in R Flashmob, the project that makes the
\n>world a better place by posting helpful questions and answers about the
\n>R statistical language<\/a> to the programmer’s Q & A site stackoverflow.com<\/a>
\n>
\n>Please forward this to other people you know who might like to join.
\n>
\n>FAQ
\n>
\n>Q. Why would I want to join an inexplicable R mob?
\n>
\n>A. Tons of other people are doing it.
\n>
\n>Q. Why else?
\n>
\n>A.\u00a0Stackoverflow\u00a0was built specifically for handling programming questions.
\n>It’s a better mousetrap. It offers search (and is well indexed by search engines),
\n>tagging, voting, the ability to choose the “best” answer to a question, and the ability to
\n>edit questions and answers as technology progresses. It has a karma system to
\n>reward people who are happy to help and discourage MLJs (mailing list jerks).
\n>
\n>Q. Do the organizers of this MOB have any commercial interest in stackoverflow?
\n>
\nA. None at all. We’re just convinced it is the best way to help and promote R. All
\n>the content submitted to stackoverflow is protected by a Creative Commons
\n>CC-Wiki License<\/a>, meaning anyone is free to copy, distribute, transmit, and
\n>remix the information on stackoverflow. All the\u00a0content on stackoverflow is
\n>regularly made available for download by the public<\/a>.
\n>
\n>INSTRUCTIONS – R MOB #2
\n>Location: stackoverflow.com
\n>Start Date: Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
\n>Start Time:
\n>10:04 AM – US Pacific
\n>11:04 AM – US Mountain
\n>12:04 PM – US Central
\n>1:04 PM – US Eastern
\n>6:04 PM – UK
\n>7:04 PM – Continental W. Europe
\n>5:04 AM (Weds) – New Zealand (birthplace of R)
\n>Duration: 50 minutes
\n>
\n>(1) At some point during the day on September 8th, synchronize your watch to
\n>http:\/\/timeanddate.com\/worldclock\/personal.html?cities=137,75,64,179,136,37,22<\/a>
\n>
\n>(2) The mob should form at precisely 4 minutes past the hour and not beforehand.
\n>
\n>(3) At 4 minutes past the hour, you should arrive at stackoverflow.com, log in,
\n>and post 3 R questions. Be sure to tag the questions “R”<\/a>. See the posting
\n>guidelines at http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/faq to understand what makes a good
\n>question.
\n>
\n>(4) Follow R Flashmob updates at http:\/\/twitter.com\/rstatsmob<\/a>
\n>
\n>(5) Post twitter messages tagged #rstats and #rstatsmob during the mob,
\n>providing links to your questions.
\n>
\n>(6) During the R MOB, you can chat with other participants on the #R channel
\n>on IRC (freenode). To do this, install the Chatzilla extension on Firefox.
\n>Click “freenode” on the main screen. Then type \/join #R in the field at the
\n>bottom of the screen. Then chat.
\n>
\n>(7) If you finish posting your three questions within the 50 minutes, stick
\n> around to answer questions and give “up votes” to good questions and answers.
\n>
\n>(8) IMPORTANT: After posting, sign the R Flashmob guestbook<\/a> at
\n>http:\/\/bit.ly\/6F8B2<\/a>
\n>
\n>(9) Return to what you would otherwise have been doing. Await
\n>instructions for R MOB #3.<\/p>\n