The loaded R package versions (in the order mentioned in the chapter):
XML 3.98-1.1 (CRAN)
rworldmap 1.3-1 (CRAN)
ggmap 2.4 (CRAN)
fitdistrplus 1.0-4 (CRAN)
actuar 1.1-9 (CRAN)
RCurl 1.95-4.6 (CRAN)
data.table 1.9.4 (CRAN)
ggplot2 1.0.1 (CRAN)
forecast 6.1 (CRAN)
Rcapture 1.4-2 (CRAN)
fbRads 0.1 (GitHub @ 4adbfb8bef2dc49b80c87de604c420d4e0dd34a6)
twitteR 1.1.8 (CRAN)
tm 0.6-1 (CRAN)
wordcloud 2.5 (CRAN)
jsonlite 0.9.16 (CRAN)
curl 0.6 (CRAN)
countrycode 0.18 (CRAN)
VGAM 0.9-8 (CRAN)
stringdist 0.9.0 (CRAN)
lubridate 1.3.3 (CRAN)
rgithub 0.9.6 (GitHub @ 0ce19e539fd61417718a664fc1517f9f9e52439c)
Rfacebook 0.5 (CRAN)
Further reading:
How social Q&A sites are changing knowledge sharing in open source software communities, ACM by Bogdan Vasilescu, Alexander Serebrenik, Prem Devanbu, and Vladimir Filkov in 2014 at http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~filkov/papers/r_so.pdf
Where is the R Activity? by James Cheshire in 2013 at http://spatial.ly/2013/06/r_activity/
Seven quick facts about R, by David Smith in 2014 at http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/04/seven-quick-facts-about-r.html
The attendants of useR! 2013 around the world by Gergely Daroczi in 2013 at http://blog.rapporter.net/2013/11/the-attendants-of-user-2013-around-world.html
R users all around the world by Gergely Daroczi in 2014 at http://blog.rapporter.net/2014/07/user-at-los-angeles-california.html
R activity around the world by Gergely Daroczi in 2014 at http://rapporter.net/custom/R-activity
R users all around the world (updated) by Gergely Daroczi in 2015 https://www.scribd.com/doc/270254924/R-users-all-around-the-world-2015