Learning by Teaching: Mentoring at the R4DS Online Learning Community
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Community runs a weekly Saturday office hour on R4DS Online Slack (11am CT) where volunteers answer live R questions, guiding people to functions, help pages, or Google. Community size is ~4,000 with ~250 weekly active members and a goal of recruiting 40 weekly tutors (currently eight). Concrete outcomes include debugging a broken tune vignette on GitHub, opening an issue and submitting a tune pull request, and turning TidyTuesday datasets into reproducible examples.
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