The loaded R package versions (in the order mentioned in the chapter):
NbClust 3.0 (CRAN)
cluster 2.0.1 (CRAN)
poLCA 1.4.1 (CRAN)
MASS 7.3-40 (CRAN)
nnet 7.3-9 (CRAN)
dplyr 0.4.1 (CRAN)
class 7.3-12 (CRAN)
rpart 4.1-9 (CRAN)
rpart.plot 1.5.2 (CRAN)
partykit 1.0-1 (CRAN)
party 1.0-2- (CRAN)
randomForest 4.6-10 (CRAN)
caret 6.0-47 (CRAN)
C50 0.1.0-24 (CRAN)
Further R packages:
glmnet 2.0-2 (CRAN)
gbm 2.1.1 (CRAN)
xgboost 0.4-2 (CRAN)
h2o 3.0.0.30 (CRAN)
Further reading:
The Elements of Statistical Learning. Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Springer by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman in 2009 at http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
An Introduction to Statistical Learning, Springer by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani in 2013 at http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/