<p>(Edit: It's auto-deleted now...)</p>

<p>I believe this post <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/439602/how-to-find-whether-the-variable-is-discrete-or-continuous-where-appropriate">How to find whether the variable is discrete or continuous where appropriate?</a>
is on topic. The subject is inherently statistical and identifying whether variables are discrete or continuous (and further details about their type) is not inherently a programming issue (for all that the user wants to implement it in R).</p>

<p>There are other grounds for concern about it -- the question could be clearer and I think may be a partial duplicate, but I don't see how it fails our criteria for on-topicness:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>if it needs statistical expertise to understand or answer, ask it here</p>
</blockquote>

<p>The user doesn't have an algorithm ready that they're seeking to implement.</p>

<p>I think this user <em>needs</em> statistical expertise to get a good answer to this question. Why are we closing it as off topic?</p>
