# R Can Use Your Help: Testing R Before Release

**URL:** <https://forum.devtalk.com/t/r-can-use-your-help-testing-r-before-release/9151>\
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**Created:** [28 April 2021 12:02 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/r-can-use-your-help-testing-r-before-release/9151 "2021-04-28T12:02:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [28 April 2021 12:02 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/r-can-use-your-help-testing-r-before-release/9151/1 "2021-04-28T12:02:14Z")

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A new [R](https://devtalk.com/r) blog post/announcement has been posted!

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> If you use R you may have wondered if there are ways you can contribute to making R better. This is another post on how you might help (Reviewing Bug Reports was the first).  
> This post is about helping with testing of pre-release versions of R.  
> Maintaining and improving R unavoidably comes with introducing regressions, that is breaking things which worked before. This also happens when external software changes its behavior (OS, compilers, libraries).

Get the full details here: [R Can Use Your Help: Testing R Before Release - The R Blog](https://developer.r-project.org/Blog/public/2021/04/28/r-can-use-your-help-testing-r-before-release/)