<p>This is my first post on CrossValidated or Meta-CrossValidated, so I don't feel I'm a stakeholder here.  FWIW, I'm trying to learn R <em>and</em> statistics - but I come from an implementer's perspective.</p>

<p>The situation right now is that R questions are split across StackOverflow and CrossValidated, with the unfortunate result that good questions go unanswered and good answers go unseen.  See, for example, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7611169/intelligent-point-label-placement-in-r">this StackOverflow question from today</a>, which duplicates <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/16057/how-do-i-avoid-overlapping-labels-in-an-r-plot">this CrossValidated question from four days ago</a>.  </p>

<p>I don't know what you/we want to do with these "pedestrian" questions in the long term, but in the short term, I'd suggest that <strong>it might be better for everyone if folks here were "harsher" about kicking plain R questions, like the one above, over to StackOverflow</strong>.</p>

<p>I don't think the argument that "many statisticians using R who would be unlikely to want to keep up with a different site" is valid here, simply because if they aren't looking on StackOverflow, they're <em>already</em> missing (very roughly) two-thirds of the R traffic.</p>

<p>There are probably some nominally R-centric questions that are really statistics questions couched in R terminology - you might want to keep them.</p>

<p>An alternative, outside-the-box solution would be if StackExchange provided a way for certain tags on one site to show up in searches for that tag on certain other sites.  This may be fraught with downsides and implementation difficulties, though.</p>
