tl;dr The rise of R ‘help’ websites written by AI is predatory and shameless. Things will only get worse. Chatbottom of the barrel Regular readers know this for sure: I’m not an R expert. I don’t just ‘know’ stuff. I’m DuckGoGoing ‘how to do x in r’ every 10 minutes. In doing this, I’ve noticed a trend that I want to complain about: I’ve found a few suspicious ‘help websites’ for R appearing high up the search rankings. Why ‘suspicious’? They’re clearly written...