Appendix B — Environment and R Packages

B.1 Environment

This book was built using

• R version R version 4.5.0 (2025-04-11).
• RStudio version ‘2024.12.1 Build 563’
• Quarto: 1.7.30
• OS: Darwin, 24.4.0, Darwin Kernel Version 24.4.0: Fri Apr 11 18:33:46 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.101.15~117/RELEASE_ARM64_T8112, AU-macbook.local, arm64, root, rressler, rressler

B.2 R Packages

This book uses the following non-Base R packages as of 2025-05-21.

           Package     Version Built
1            abind       1.4-8 4.5.0
2              ash      1.0-15 4.5.0
3          askpass       1.2.1 4.5.0
4        backports       1.5.0 4.5.0
5        base64enc       0.1-3 4.5.0
6             bigD       0.3.1 4.5.0
7              bit       4.6.0 4.5.0
8            bit64     4.6.0-1 4.5.0
9           bitops       1.0-9 4.5.0
10            blob       1.2.4 4.5.0
11             BMA     3.18.20 4.5.0
12            brio       1.1.5 4.5.0
13           broom       1.0.8 4.5.0
14           bslib       0.9.0 4.5.0
15          cachem       1.1.0 4.5.0
16           callr       3.7.6 4.5.0
17             car       3.1-3 4.5.0
18         carData       3.0-5 4.5.0
19           cards       0.6.0 4.5.0
20      cellranger       1.1.0 4.5.0
21             cli       3.6.5 4.5.0
22           clipr       0.8.0 4.5.0
23      colorspace       2.1-1 4.5.0
24      commonmark       1.9.5 4.5.0
25          config       0.3.2 4.5.0
26      conflicted       1.2.0 4.5.0
27        corrplot        0.95 4.5.0
28         cowplot       1.1.3 4.5.0
29           cpp11       0.5.2 4.5.0
30          crayon       1.5.3 4.5.0
31            curl       6.2.2 4.5.0
32      data.table      1.17.0 4.5.0
33             DBI       1.2.3 4.5.0
34          dbplyr       2.5.0 4.5.0
35        DEoptimR     1.1-3-1 4.5.0
36           Deriv       4.1.6 4.5.0
37            desc       1.4.3 4.5.0
38         deSolve        1.40 4.5.0
39          digest      0.6.37 4.5.0
40            doBy      4.6.27 4.5.0
41       dotCall64         1.2 4.5.0
42           dotty       0.1.0 4.5.0
43         downlit       0.4.4 4.5.0
44           dplyr       1.1.4 4.5.0
45          dtplyr       1.3.1 4.5.0
46           e1071      1.7-16 4.5.0
47           Ecdat       0.4-2 4.5.0
48           Ecfun       0.3-6 4.5.0
49        evaluate       1.0.3 4.5.0
50           fansi       1.0.6 4.5.0
51          farver       2.1.2 4.5.0
52         fastmap       1.2.0 4.5.0
53             fda       6.2.0 4.5.0
54             fds         1.8 4.5.0
55          fields      16.3.1 4.5.0
56             FNN     1.1.4.1 4.5.0
57     fontawesome       0.5.3 4.5.0
58         forcats       1.0.0 4.5.0
59         foreach       1.5.2 4.5.0
60         Formula       1.2-5 4.5.0
61              fs       1.6.6 4.5.0
62          gargle       1.5.2 4.5.0
63        generics       0.1.3 4.5.0
64       ggformula      0.12.0 4.5.0
65         ggplot2       3.5.2 4.5.0
66         ggrepel       0.9.6 4.5.0
67        ggridges       0.5.6 4.5.0
68          glmnet       4.1-8 4.5.0
69            glue       1.8.0 4.5.0
70     googledrive       2.1.1 4.5.0
71   googlesheets4       1.1.1 4.5.0
72              gt       1.0.0 4.5.0
73          gtable       0.3.6 4.5.0
74       gtsummary       2.2.0 4.5.0
75           haven       2.5.4 4.5.0
76          hdrcde         3.4 4.5.0
77            here       1.0.1 4.5.0
78           highr        0.11 4.5.0
79             hms       1.1.3 4.5.0
80       htmltools     0.5.8.1 4.5.0
81     htmlwidgets       1.6.4 4.5.0
82          httpuv      1.6.16 4.5.0
83            httr       1.4.7 4.5.0
84           httr2       1.1.2 4.5.0
85             ids       1.0.1 4.5.0
86          inline      0.3.21 4.5.0
87           ISLR2       1.3-2 4.5.0
88         isoband       0.2.7 4.5.0
89       iterators      1.0.14 4.5.0
90     janeaustenr       1.0.0 4.5.0
91         janitor       2.2.1 4.5.0
92            jpeg      0.1-11 4.5.0
93       jquerylib       0.1.4 4.5.0
94        jsonlite       2.0.0 4.5.0
95      juicyjuice       0.1.0 4.5.0
96           keras      2.15.0 4.5.0
97          keras3       1.4.0 4.5.0
98         kernlab      0.9-33 4.5.0
99           knitr        1.50 4.5.0
100             ks      1.15.1 4.5.0
101       labeling       0.4.3 4.5.0
102       labelled      2.14.1 4.5.0
103          later       1.4.2 4.5.0
104          leaps         3.2 4.5.0
105      lifecycle       1.0.4 4.5.0
106       litedown         0.7 4.5.0
107           lme4      1.1-37 4.5.0
108         locfit    1.5-9.12 4.5.0
109      lubridate       1.9.4 4.5.0
110       magrittr       2.0.3 4.5.0
111           maps     3.4.2.1 4.5.0
112       markdown         2.0 4.5.0
113   MatrixModels       0.5-4 4.5.0
114         mclust       6.1.1 4.5.0
115        memoise       2.0.1 4.5.0
116 microbenchmark       1.5.0 4.5.0
117           mime        0.13 4.5.0
118         miniUI       0.1.2 4.5.0
119          minqa       1.2.8 4.5.0
120         modelr      0.1.11 4.5.0
121     mosaicCore     0.9.4.0 4.5.0
122      multicool       1.0.1 4.5.0
123        mvtnorm       1.3-3 4.5.0
124         nloptr       2.2.1 4.5.0
125       numDeriv  2016.8-1.1 4.5.0
126        ollamar       1.2.2 4.5.0
127        openssl       2.3.2 4.5.0
128 palmerpenguins       0.1.1 4.5.0
129       pbkrtest       0.5.4 4.5.0
130          pcaPP       2.0-5 4.5.0
131         pillar      1.10.2 4.5.0
132      pkgconfig       2.0.3 4.5.0
133            png       0.1-8 4.5.0
134         pracma       2.4.4 4.5.0
135    prettyunits       1.2.0 4.5.0
136       processx       3.8.6 4.5.0
137       progress       1.2.3 4.5.0
138       promises       1.3.2 4.5.0
139          proxy      0.4-27 4.5.0
140             ps       1.9.1 4.5.0
141          purrr       1.0.4 4.5.0
142       quantreg         6.1 4.5.0
143         quarto       1.4.4 4.5.0
144        R.cache      0.17.0 4.5.0
145    R.methodsS3       1.8.2 4.5.0
146           R.oo      1.27.1 4.5.0
147        R.utils      2.13.0 4.5.0
148             R6       2.6.1 4.5.0
149           ragg       1.4.0 4.5.0
150        rainbow         3.8 4.5.0
151       rappdirs       0.3.3 4.5.0
152         raster      3.6-32 4.5.0
153      rbibutils         2.3 4.5.0
154   RColorBrewer       1.1-3 4.5.0
155           Rcpp      1.0.14 4.5.0
156      RcppEigen   0.3.4.0.2 4.5.0
157       RcppTOML       0.2.3 4.5.0
158          RCurl   1.98-1.17 4.5.0
159         Rdpack       2.6.4 4.5.0
160      reactable       0.4.4 4.5.0
161         reactR       0.6.1 4.5.0
162          readr       2.1.5 4.5.0
163         readxl       1.4.5 4.5.0
164     reformulas       0.4.1 4.5.0
165        rematch       2.0.0 4.5.0
166       rematch2       2.1.2 4.5.0
167        remotes       2.5.0 4.5.0
168           renv       1.1.4 4.5.0
169           repr       1.1.7 4.5.0
170         reprex       2.1.1 4.5.0
171     reticulate      1.42.0 4.5.0
172          rlang       1.1.6 4.5.0
173      rmarkdown        2.29 4.5.0
174     robustbase    0.99-4-1 4.5.0
175      rprojroot       2.0.4 4.5.0
176          rrcov       1.7-7 4.5.0
177     rstudioapi      0.17.1 4.5.0
178          rvest       1.0.4 4.5.0
179      rworldmap       1.3-8 4.5.0
180           sass      0.4.10 4.5.0
181         scales       1.4.0 4.5.0
182        selectr       0.4-2 4.5.0
183          shape     1.4.6.1 4.5.0
184          shiny      1.10.0 4.5.0
185          skimr       2.1.5 4.5.0
186      snakecase      0.11.1 4.5.0
187      SnowballC       0.7.1 4.5.0
188    sourcetools     0.1.7-1 4.5.0
189             sp       2.2-0 4.5.0
190           spam      2.11-1 4.5.0
191        SparseM      1.84-2 4.5.0
192        stringi       1.8.7 4.5.0
193        stringr       1.5.1 4.5.0
194         styler      1.10.3 4.5.0
195            sys       3.4.3 4.5.0
196    systemfonts       1.2.3 4.5.0
197     tensorflow 2.16.0.9000 4.5.0
198          terra      1.8-50 4.5.0
199    textshaping       1.0.1 4.5.0
200    tfautograph       0.3.2 4.5.0
201         tfruns       1.5.3 4.5.0
202         tibble       3.2.1 4.5.0
203          tidyr       1.3.1 4.5.0
204     tidyselect       1.2.1 4.5.0
205       tidytext       0.4.2 4.5.0
206      tidyverse       2.0.0 4.5.0
207     timechange       0.3.0 4.5.0
208        tinytex        0.57 4.5.0
209            tis        1.39 4.5.0
210     tokenizers       0.3.0 4.5.0
211           tzdb       0.5.0 4.5.0
212           utf8       1.2.5 4.5.0
213           uuid       1.2-1 4.5.0
214             V8       6.0.3 4.5.0
215          vctrs       0.6.5 4.5.0
216    viridisLite       0.4.2 4.5.0
217          vroom       1.6.5 4.5.0
218        whisker       0.4.1 4.5.0
219          withr       3.0.2 4.5.0
220      wordcloud         2.6 4.5.0
221        writexl       1.5.4 4.5.0
222           xfun        0.52 4.5.0
223           xml2       1.3.8 4.5.0
224         xtable       1.8-4 4.5.0
225           yaml      2.3.10 4.5.0
226        zeallot       0.1.0 4.5.0

B.3 Python Environment

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version:        3.9.6 (default, Mar 12 2025, 20:22:46)  [Clang 17.0.0 (clang-1700.0.13.3)]
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numpy_version:  2.0.2

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