What you need for this book

All code in this book has been written against the latest version of R—3.2.2 at the time of writing. As a matter of good practice, you should keep your R version up to date but most, if not all, code should work with any reasonably recent version of R. Some of the R packages we will be installing will require more recent versions, though. For the other software that this book uses, instructions will be furnished pro re nata. If you want to get a head start, however, install RStudio, JAGS, and a C++ compiler (or Rtools if you use Windows).