<p>Greetings from your friendly neighbors who frequent the <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;r&#39;" rel="tag">r</a> tag over at StackOverflow!</p>

<p>We are all familiar with the fact that questions involving R will often straddle the two sites, and so a certain amount of migration between the two is to be expected.</p>

<p>However, a few of us over at SO have noticed that recently it seems as though R questions are being migrated to SO regardless of their quality. The latest example was <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/11674737/324364">this</a> question. (A few more examples of what I would consider low quality <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/11475818/324364">here</a>, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/11225743/324364">here</a>, and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/11213414/324364">here</a>.) That question is both rather unclear and certainly does not display any research effort on the part of the asker.</p>

<p>I would just like to remind everyone, whenever possible: <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/82986/164376">never migrate crap</a>!</p>

<p>Instead, it may be better to try to encourage the OP to improve the question on your site, and if they do, <strong>then</strong> feel free to migrate it. Otherwise, just close it.</p>

<p><strong>My question is why are these low quality questions be migrated at all?</strong></p>

<p>(None of this is meant to imply that low quality questions are never migrated in the other direction, from SO to CV. Please feel free to pop into the <a href="http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/106/r">R chat room</a> at SO to give us feedback on any low quality migrations. I simply felt like I'd seen more low quality migrations than usual recently, so I thought I'd mention it, just as a reminder.)</p>
