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+^.*\.Rproj$
+^\.Rproj\.user$
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+.Rproj.user
+.Rhistory
+.RData
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diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+Package: maRgheRitaR
+Type: Package
+Title: What the Package Does (Title Case)
+Version: 0.1.0
+Author: Who wrote it
+Maintainer: The package maintainer <yourself@somewhere.net>
+Description: More about what it does (maybe more than one line)
+    Use four spaces when indenting paragraphs within the Description.
+License: What license is it under?
+Encoding: UTF-8
+LazyData: true
\ No newline at end of file
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+exportPattern("^[[:alpha:]]+")
diff --git a/R/center.R b/R/center.R
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+#' Centering datasets
+#'
+#' Some more description
+#'
+#' And even more
+#'
+#' @param dataset The numeric vector to be centered
+#' @param desired The numeric midpoint value around which the data will be centered
+#'
+#' @return A new vector containing the original data centered around the desired values
+#'
+#' @examples
+#	center(c(1,2,3),0) # should return -1 0 1
+#	center(c(4,5,6),2) # should return 1 2 3
+center <- function(dataset, desired) {
+	dataset - mean(dataset) + desired
+}
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+#' Rescaling datasets
+#'
+#' @param v A numeric vector
+#'
+#' @return A new numeric vector, rescaled from the input vector to the range of 0 to 1
+#'
+#' @examples
+#'	rescale(c(1,2,3)) # [1] 0.0 0.5 1.0
+#'	rescale(c(1,2,3,4,5)) # [1] 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00
+rescale <- function(v) {
+	(v - min(v)) / (max(v) - min(v))
+}
diff --git a/maRgheRitaR.Rproj b/maRgheRitaR.Rproj
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+Version: 1.0
+
+RestoreWorkspace: Default
+SaveWorkspace: Default
+AlwaysSaveHistory: Default
+
+EnableCodeIndexing: Yes
+UseSpacesForTab: Yes
+NumSpacesForTab: 2
+Encoding: UTF-8
+
+RnwWeave: Sweave
+LaTeX: pdfLaTeX
+
+AutoAppendNewline: Yes
+StripTrailingWhitespace: Yes
+
+BuildType: Package
+PackageUseDevtools: Yes
+PackageInstallArgs: --no-multiarch --with-keep.source