1  Introduction

These packages require R version 4.5.0 (released 2025-04-11) or higher (macOS, Windows, Linux). Readers are encouraged to learn more about the full details of these packages in Chapter 7.

Sys.info()[c('sysname', 'release', 'machine')]
#  sysname  release  machine 
# "Darwin" "25.1.0"  "arm64"
R.version
#                _                           
# platform       aarch64-apple-darwin20      
# arch           aarch64                     
# os             darwin20                    
# system         aarch64, darwin20           
# status                                     
# major          4                           
# minor          5.1                         
# year           2025                        
# month          06                          
# day            13                          
# svn rev        88306                       
# language       R                           
# version.string R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13)
# nickname       Great Square Root

Readers can install these packages from CRAN using

utils::install.packages('groupedHyperframe')
utils::install.packages('groupedHyperframe.random')
utils::install.packages('hyper.gam')
utils::install.packages('maxEff')

These packages appear in the following peer-reviewed publications from the authors.

Zhan T, Yi M, Chervoneva I (2025). “Quantile Index predictors using R package hyper.gam.” Bioinformatics, 41(8), btaf430. ISSN 1367-4811, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf430 https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf430. See Details in Chapter 5 of this Quarto book.