What you need for this book

This book heavily depends on the software environment R, version 3.2 or newer (https://cran.r-project.org/). In most chapters, independent and standalone code is written to show methods and execute examples, and no additional packages of R are needed. For a few chapters, additional R packages such as deSolve, cvTools, laeken, VIM, and few others must be installed within R. The packages dplyr and ggplot2 are used throughout the book.

Optionally, the use of a script editor for R, such as RStudio (https://www.rstudio.com/) or Architect + Eclipse (https://www.openanalytics.eu/architect), is recommended.