How this book was made

This book was made using R (R Core Team 2018), and the bookdown package (Xie 2016), based on Markdown syntax, using knitr (Xie 2015). Numerous other R packages were used, including:

  • diagram (Soetaert 2017) for making some diagrams.
  • kableExtra (Zhu 2018) for nicer tables.
  • DT (Xie et al. 2018) for displaying some data tables in the online version.
  • viridis (Garnier et al. 2024) for some colour specifications that make colours easier for those with colour-blindness, and for better grey-scale printing.
  • webexercises (Barr and DeBruine 2021) for creating interactive web exercises (i.e., Quick Revision questions) in the online version.

All of this software is free and open source. Other resources used include:

  • The online quizzes are embedded using H5P iframes.
  • Icons are from iconmonstr, and are freely available.

References

Barr D, DeBruine L. Webexercises: Create interactive web exercises in ’R Markdown’ (formerly ’webex’) [Internet]. 2021. Available from: https://github.com/psyteachr/webexercises.
Garnier S, Ross N, Rudis R, Camargo AP, Sciaini M, Scherer C. viridis(Lite) - colorblind-friendly color maps for R [Internet]. 2024. Available from: https://sjmgarnier.github.io/viridis/.
R Core Team. R: A language and environment for statistical computing [Internet]. Vienna, Austria: R Foundation for Statistical Computing; 2018. Available from: https://www.R-project.org/.
Soetaert K. Diagram: Functions for visualising simple graphs (networks), plotting flow diagrams [Internet]. 2017. Available from: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=diagram.
Xie Y. Dynamic documents with R and knitr [Internet]. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman; Hall/CRC; 2015. Available from: https://yihui.name/knitr/.
Xie Y. Bookdown: Authoring books and technical documents with R markdown [Internet]. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman; Hall/CRC; 2016. Available from: https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown.
Xie Y, Cheng J, Tan X. DT: A wrapper of the JavaScript library ’DataTables’ [Internet]. 2018. Available from: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=DT.
Zhu H. kableExtra: Construct complex table with ’kable’ and pipe syntax [Internet]. 2018. Available from: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=kableExtra.
Copyright © Peter K. Dunn, 2025