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+# Welcome to the R Contributor Office Hour (EMEA/APAC)! 
+2023-12-14
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+## Useful links 
+
+ * R Development Guide: https://contributor.r-project.org/rdevguide/ 
+ * R's Bugzilla: https://bugs.r-project.org 
+ * R Project Weblate server: https://translate.rx.studio/projects/r-project 
+ * R sources - SVN repo: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ 
+ * GitHub mirror: https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/ 
+ * GitHub Codespace (R Dev Container) https://github.com/r-devel/r-dev-env 
+ * R-devel mailing list archives: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/, searchable GitHub repo: https://github.com/MichaelChirico/r-mailing-list-archive/tree/master/r-devel 
+ * Minutes from previous office hours: https://github.com/r-devel/rcontribution/tree/main/office_hours 
+ * Annotated list of bugs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bhfPIJQXeKpydigMH79FKIkdHO9NxlBSB_bTRoCFnPY/edit#gid=0
+
+## Keeping in contact 
+
+ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/R_Contributors
+ * Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@R_Contributors
+ * Slack: https://contributor.r-project.org/slack 
+
+## Warm up 
+
+Please tell us a bit about yourself, following the template below: 
+
+Name: Heather Turner   
+Country I am currently in: UK  
+Something we could do or discuss together today: 
+    
+Name: Ella Kaye   
+Country I am currently in: UK  
+Something we could do or discuss together today: Nothing in particular today
+
+Name: Brian Terry  
+Country I am currently in: UK  
+Something we could do or discuss together today: Nothing in particular.
+
+Name: Tim Davis  
+Country I am currently in: UK  
+Something we could do or discuss together today: Cherry trees data
+
+## Discussion
+
+### Cherry trees
+
+- The `trees` data in R: Tim has tracked down the orginal source of the data, which correctly has diameter labelled as Diameter rather than Girth. 
+
+    - Minimum proposal: add reference for original source in the help file
+
+    - Bigger proposal: correct data and removing confusing references to Girth
+
+    - Bigger propoasl will require changing help file, data file and examples. It will be a breaking change - affecting unknown number of CRAN packages. Decide it is is best to make minimum proposal, which should be uncontroversial and easy to fix.
+
+
+- Edit the helpfile directly to create a patch: https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/blob/master/src/library/datasets/man/trees.Rd
+    - This can be added as an attchment to a bug report on https://bugs.r-project.org 
+
+- Trick for getting a patch for R from GitHub.
+
+    - Make changes in a fork and commit it
+
+    - Click on the commit id
+
+    - Add '.diff' to the end of the URL
+
+    - Save the resulting file as a .diff text file
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