<p>A <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/q/400/919">discussion</a> in fall 2010 considered the extent to which purely software-related questions would be welcome on this site.  It didn't really reach a conclusion, but one useful suggestion that arose is to <strong>collect a set of links to online support resources</strong> (such as user groups and list servers) for the various statistical computing platforms.  I guess that would let us close some of these questions in a constructive and relatively guilt-free manner.  I, for one, would like to help the people who come by with questions about <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/9013/string-replace-in-sas">SAS macro syntax</a> or  <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/2269/access-tables-created-in-sas-enterprise-guide-client-into-sas-enterprise-miner-cl">table access</a>, even though these questions have no direct statistical interest (and would interest only small subcommunities here) and therefore ought to be closed or migrated.</p>

<p><strong>Could we organize replies in the present thread by software platform?</strong>  The ones of most immediate use are those that keep showing up: R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Excel.</p>
