Richie Cotton

United Kingdom

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Age: 33

I mostly code in R, MATLAB and C#.

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How do I get people to take better care of data?

dataset reproducible-research quality-control asked Oct 21 '10 at 16:26

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What does the error “the exec task needs a command to execute” mean?

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How to deal with name/value pairs of function arguments in MATLAB

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Techniques for finding near duplicate records

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How do you you determine the namespace of a function?

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How do you write your package documentation?

documentation r packages documentation-generation asked Jun 21 '10 at 15:41

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How do you calculate cyclomatic complexity for R functions?

r complexity cyclomatic-complexity asked Aug 12 '11 at 13:58

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How do you use multiple versions of the same R package?

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In R, what's the canonical way to detect if the OS is 64-bit?

r operating-system 64bit asked Jun 22 '12 at 15:22

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How to override ggplot2's axis formatting?

r ggplot2 asked May 25 '10 at 17:20

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Stopwatch function in R

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Execution Efficiency vs Programmer Efficiency in R

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Reset R instance

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Remove all special characters from a string in R?

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Suggestions for an open source Final Degree Project

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slick one-lineRs

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Most underused data visualization

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How to cbind or rbind different lengths vectors without repeating the elements of the shorter vectors?

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Ignore outliers in ggplot2 boxplot

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What 1-2 letter object names conflict with existing R objects?

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What is the current state of Unit testing support in the R language

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Essential skills of a Data Scientist

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Proposing feature requests to the R Core Team

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How do I determine the author of an R package?

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Getting rid of axis values in R Plot

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View the source of an R package

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Controlling digits in R

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How to check in MATLAB if a vector only contains zeros?

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adding leading zeros using R

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