Don’t do it. Please don’t. As someone married into a family of Mexicans who are very open about the state of Mexico please don’t. If my fluent wife who is familiar with the area would not feel safe then I stress to not do it.
It’s a shame. Beautiful country. Wonderful people. But you are very much at the whim of others and please do not.
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.