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Methodology
Phase I: Mining Archival Data
Stack Overflow data dump files + R-
help MBOX files
September 2008 - December 2013
400 random threads from each
channel (questions, answers, comments,...)
2 coders
Phase II: Qualitative Survey
27 valid responses
Promoted to the R community
via
Twitter, Reddit, R-help mailing
list, and Meta Stack Exchange
Case study
Dataset availible online: https://github.com/thechiselgroup/R-ML-and-StackOverflow 5