I&#x27;m a late arrival to the language and have almost interacted with it exclusively through StackOverflow and Github. I&#x27;ve been astonished at not just how friendly people are, but how quickly I can get a helpful response to even what I feel are pretty esoteric (and dumb) questions...again, one of the problems of coming into R is that, because of the relatively small community, there aren&#x27;t as many references or easily Googlable answers compared to Python...but getting answers to questions if you ask them is very easy, and I think that&#x27;s a credit to the community.<p>On the other hand, there seem to be a lot of useful libraries that haven&#x27;t been ported over to Github or are otherwise easily accessible beyond CRAN...Many of them probably don&#x27;t get as much exposure as they would if they were more easily discoverable...and I honestly don&#x27;t even know where, in those cases, to start the bug reporting&#x2F;patching process. That&#x27;s obviously the fault of my being spoiled by Github...but that&#x27;s kind of the point, there&#x27;s a bit more friction in contributing to R than you might find in Python&#x2F;Ruby&#x2F;etc.