<p>This is my second day using R. I've had some issues using it, and I'm not sure how appropriate it would be to ask those here, since they are not really statistic questions, but R usage ones. In FAQ there was nothing about allowed topics, I've thought of checking meta and noticed this question :)</p>

<p>For example, after successfully doing some work yesterday, I started R today and I typed in <code>load("test.r")</code>. R complained with <code>Error: bad restore file magic number (file may be corrupted) -- no data loaded</code>. After some googling, I figured it out that I should use <code>source</code> instead. But what if I hadn't find anything on google? How would such a question fit here?</p>

<p>Another issue I have converting some S-Plus code to R: I get this warning <code>'seriesData' is deprecated. Use 'series' instead.</code> I'd like to know if it's safe to just replace <code>seriesData</code> with <code>series</code>, or if this can lead to some silent problems.</p>

<p>So what I'm asking, should this site be a one-stop shop for R? I think it should be, it's quite unpleasant to subscribe to 'r-help' just to ask a basic question. This is why stack exchange sites were created for. But I can understand why statisticians would be bothered by such questions.</p>

<p>I think the other extreme is mathoverflow.net, where I've seen people with 3000 reputation first request permission on meta to ask a borderline question. That gave me the impression that they view the site as some sort of a temple which they must not dirty.</p>
