<p>Pursuant to the recent apparent consensus (<a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35/how-much-programming-here">How much programming here?</a>) that this site should accept <em>some</em> questions on programming statistical computations, I would like to inquire whether the site would be willing to take over the Q&amp;A role currently served by the ggplot2 mailing list.</p>

<p>That is, ggplot2 is the latest (and greatest, in my opinion) 2D visualization package for R, and the mailing list has almost 1000 subscribers, leaving the original ggplot2 maintainer unable to give his full attention to all posts (though there are others that have acquired expertise in ggplot2 that help out regularly). It has been suggested (<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/ggplot2/browse_thread/thread/4a03a89fdf326ec6" rel="nofollow noreferrer">link to ggplot2 mailing list</a>) that a new forum for obtaining help with ggplot2 might be reasonable, and that either stackoverflow or a proposal for ggplot2's own stackexchange might be a useful solution. </p>

<p>However, seeing that stats.stackexchange.com appears to be open to programatic questions, and anticipating that this might harken a move of most R-related questions from stackoverflow to stats.stackexchange.com, I wonder if a third option for providing help with ggplot2 might be to let ggplot2 questions be posted here.</p>

<p>Note that I'm not the head of the ggplot2 list; I simply thought I'd explore the acceptability of this option with you folks before reporting back to the ggplot2 list.</p>

<p>Note also that this may also relate to the questions (<a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/109/what-to-do-with-pure-visualization-questions">What to do with pure visualization questions?</a>,<a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/242/is-it-appropriate-to-ask-for-suggestions-solicit-ideas-on-data-visualizations">Is it appropriate to ask for suggestions/solicit ideas on data visualizations?</a>) on whether queries for advice on data visualization approaches are appropriate.</p>
