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Alex Holcombe

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Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Sydney

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Open terminal here in Mac OS finder

osx terminal finder Jun 3 '12 at 13:57 sblundy
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77 votes
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How to Correctly Use Lists in R?

r data-structures language-design language-features abstract-data-type Feb 14 at 9:07 Mien
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49 votes
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Convert a list of characters into a string

python string May 2 at 9:44 Mytho
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48 votes
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How can I get chewy chocolate chip cookies?

baking cookies texture Aug 22 '11 at 23:44 Aaronut
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45 votes
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Complete substantive examples of reproducible research using R

r big-list reproducible-research sweave latex Feb 8 '12 at 0:01 Jeromy Anglim
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How to improve myself as a lecturer?

university teaching resources Feb 11 at 5:17 Chris Gregg
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41 votes
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In R, what is the difference between the [] and [[]] notations for accessing the elements of a list?

list r data.frame Feb 5 at 12:02 Comptrol
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38 votes
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General suggestions for debugging R?

r debugging r-faq Aug 17 '12 at 14:29 Roman Luštrik
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37 votes
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General guide for creating publication quality tables using R, Sweave, and LaTeX

r sweave xtable Apr 23 at 12:19 saratis
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36 votes
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Why do people smash garlic?

garlic May 9 '12 at 11:38 Community
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How to publish an academic book but make the PDF freely available online?

publishing open-access books May 23 '12 at 0:32 eykanal
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29 votes
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Why aren't Python's superclass __init__ methods automatically invoked?

python inheritance subclass delegation superclass Mar 20 '12 at 23:11 Patrick Donovan
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24 votes
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Software needed to scrape data from graph

data-visualization data-mining software Feb 1 at 19:26 Community
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20 votes
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How to caramelise onions?

onions caramelisation Sep 8 '10 at 0:53 JustRightMenus
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19 votes
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Which pseudo-$R^2$ measure is the one to report for logistic regression (Cox & Snell or Nagelkerke)?

logistic goodness-of-fit Feb 7 at 14:52 gung
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17 votes
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How to use an image as a point in ggplot?

r ggplot2 Feb 9 '11 at 11:16 baptiste
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16 votes
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Reorder levels of a data frame without changing order of values

r factor levels Mar 4 '10 at 17:52 gd047
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16 votes
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doing a plyr operation on every row of a data frame in R

r plyr Jan 15 '10 at 21:17 hadley
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How can I hide the part of the legend using ggplot2?

r ggplot2 Mar 20 '12 at 7:02 Brandon Bertelsen
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16 votes
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When are Log scales appropriate?

data-visualization data-transformation May 17 '12 at 21:07 Michael Lew
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Can a single cup of coffee help a person to wake up and be more focused?

nutrition physiology coffee Jun 2 '12 at 11:51 Sklivvz
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13 votes
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Changing shapes used for scale_shape() in ggplot2

r ggplot2 Jun 29 '12 at 19:13 Gilles
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ggplot2: sorting a plot

r ggplot2 Feb 27 at 15:29 Tim Cooper
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12 votes
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What style questions should I ask potential graduate students interviewing for positions in my lab?

professors interview Feb 23 '12 at 20:00 Amy
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Do I need to correct the pH of my newly re-potted citrus tree?

soil containers potting-soil citrus Aug 31 '11 at 15:48 bstpierre
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11 votes
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What cheeses work 'best' in melted cheese sandwich applications?

cheese sandwich Jul 31 '12 at 16:59 SerraRain
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What type of tester works best for measuring soil pH?

soil soil-test Dec 18 '11 at 20:42 winwaed
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Seasoning steamed vegetables (in particular potatoes): advisable?

vegetables potatoes seasoning steaming Feb 17 '11 at 17:34 Community
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How can I extract plot axes' ranges for a ggplot2 object?

r ggplot2 Dec 13 '12 at 20:08 joran
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How can I suppress the vertical gridlines in a ggplot2 plot?

r ggplot2 Oct 22 '12 at 3:07 dave.ponet
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