Software information and conventions

The R session information when compiling this book is shown below:

## R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
## Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
## Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17134)
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## Locale:
##   LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
##   LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
##   LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
##   LC_NUMERIC=C                          
##   LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    
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## Package version:
##   blogdown_0.14         bookdown_0.12        
##   flexdashboard_0.5.1.1 htmltools_0.3.6      
##   knitr_1.23            learnr_0.9.2.1       
##   pkgdown_1.3.0         reticulate_1.12      
##   revealjs_0.9          rmarkdown_1.14       
##   rticles_0.9           shiny_1.3.2          
##   tinytex_0.14          tufte_0.5            
##   xaringan_0.11        
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## Pandoc version: 2.6