1.4 Software information and conventions

The knitr package (Y. Xie 2015) and the bookdown package (Yihui Xie 2023) were used to compile this text. Package names and inline code are formatted in a typewriter font (e.g., knitr, lm(Y ~ X)), and function names are followed by parentheses (e.g., lm()).

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References

Xie, Y. 2015. Dynamic Documents with R and Knitr. 2nd ed. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. http://yihui.org/knitr/.

Xie, Yihui. 2023. Bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with r Markdown. https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown.