I want to echo this point. Our 'salary' was ~$24k/year. So, just enough to stay alive and for a beer on Fridays. If my co-researcher had the coding abilities

I want to echo this point. Our 'salary' was ~$24k/year. So, just enough to stay alive and for a beer on Fridays. If my co-researcher had the coding abilities he needed, he would have left. And, apologies if I wasn't clear enough here, we were grad students.