Agree on stack overflow. And part of learning how to program is trying to structure logic into thoughtful questions.

With R specifically I’d recommend looking into the tidyverse library for R. Or at least understand the libraries your work environment will be specifying to make sure you’re on the same page.

stack overflow has a lot of R knowledge, in questions already asked and in an active community. Try looking if your question has been asked there before, and if not, ask it. Many beginner questions are not about a particular language but about logic and math, maybe you can give a look at math.stackexchange also. For more simple questions, language models are very good (Chatgpt/bing, Bard)

Well most replies already suggested a LLM but good old fashioned search skills work fine too.

For simple questions, as long as you know the correct terminology that is relevant, just asking the question of a search engine is usually good enough to turn up articles or stack overflow answers that’ll help

If you don’t know the terminology or you struggle to ask a precise question despite your knowledge, going up one level , so to speak, and consuming more information about the stuff in the immediate context, can often either fill in the gaps to allow you to ask the right question, or sometimes it’s the missing bit of info you didn’t know you needed to solve your actual problem.

Definitely use the other resources mentioned here, but Codeium is a really powerful AI chat/pair programmer that I’ve been using for about a year now and it has been extremely accurate in explaining code and giving answers. If you get stuck with learning something or want examples, I would definitely consider using it. It’s a VSCode extension, so you’ll have to have VSCode to use it.

Hi OP I am an R dev.

Once you have some basics, try to use the built in documentation by typing ?fun where fun is the function you are trying to use. The examples are extra useful.