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R Version Control

Please note that future updates to these packages may impact replication of results.

Package Version Citation
base 4.4.1 R Core Team (2024)
causaldata 0.1.3 Huntington-Klein and Barrett (2021)
cobalt 4.5.5 Greifer (2024a)
data.table 1.15.4 Barrett et al. (2024)
gbm 2.2.2 Ridgeway and Developers (2024)
kableExtra 1.4.0 Zhu (2024)
knitr 1.48.1 Xie (2014); Xie (2015); Xie (2024)
marginaleffects 0.21.0 Arel-Bundock, Greifer, and Heiss (Forthcoming)
MatchIt 4.5.5 Ho et al. (2011)
MatchItSE 1.0 Henke (2016)
patchwork 1.2.0 Pedersen (2024)
randomForest 4.7.1.1 Liaw and Wiener (2002)
renv 1.0.7 Ushey and Wickham (2024)
rmarkdown 2.27 Xie, Allaire, and Grolemund (2018); Xie, Dervieux, and Riederer (2020); Allaire et al. (2024)
tidyverse 2.0.0 Wickham et al. (2019)
WeightIt 1.2.0 Greifer (2024b)