Dear r-help mailing list, Some colleagues and I are working on a series of research studies related to mailing list, and Stack Overflow. While I do understand that this announcement would be technically off topic - it's about a study that could involve R-Help users. So, please, If you have time and want to help me on this research, I will really appreciate your collaboration. THE SURVEY: http://goo.gl/alZN4t I would like to invite you to participate in an academic survey namely "Towards understanding communication channels within a community". We are Carlos Gomez and Margaret-Anne Storey, researchers from the Computer Human Interaction and Software Engineering Lab (CHISEL) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, invite you to participate in the study. We'd be grateful if you could help us understand the current use of communication tools, the importance of using an adequate communication tool, and the interplay between tools and the development process by completing an on-line survey (http://goo.gl/alZN4t). The survey should take about 10 to 15 minutes General remarks: This is a purely academic research project with no commercial interests. We will openly publish the results so everyone can benefit from them, but will anonymize everything before doing so; your responses will be handled confidentially. Responses -unless explicitly stated otherwise- cannot be traced back to individual respondents. Please note that you are not obligated to participate in the survey. Target audience: Users and developers of R. Note: - The survey is available in English and Spanish. - For an example of related studies from our lab, please visit Lief Singer's work, How Software Developers Use Twitter (http://goo.gl/OO61Vf) - I do understand that this email would be technically off topic - it's about a study that could involve R-Help users - not about coding in R. - This project is based on an open challenge presented by Bogdan Vasilescu on his dissertation (http://goo.gl/IKsf2e) Thank you for your consideration! Best regards, Carlos Gomez Contact information: cagomezt(at)uvic(dot)ca CHISEL Web site: http://thechiselgroup.org Canada, BC, Victoria