System Requirements and Package Versions

Tested Operating Systems and Hardware:

• Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit
• Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1185G7 @ 3.00GHz
• Installed RAM: 32 GB (31.7 GB usable)

Non-Standard Hardware Requirements:

• No special hardware is required. The analysis was performed using RStudio software.
• Recommended: At least 16 GB of RAM for large datasets (should work with 8 GB).

R Version and Installation Guide:

• R 4.0.0 or later
• Search for "Download R" and "Download RStudio" online to find the official websites.
• Follow the instructions on these websites to download and install R and RStudio.
• Downloading and installing R and RStudio should take around 10 minutes, depending on internet speed, but generally less than 1 hour.

Instructions for Use and Reproductione:

• The R scripts (.R or .Rmd files) are numbered and include all relevant information on how to run the analysis.
• Open the first R script named 1_packages_trc_run_this_first.R to set up the environment.
• Download the input data and run the R scripts in the provided order to reproduce the results presented in the article.
• Some key datasets are saved to Data/Intermediate_input folder to save time (see script get_intermediate_data.R)

R Packages Used:

• tidyverse (version 2.0.0 or later)
• terra (version 1.7-71 or later)
• tmap (version 3.3-4 or later)
• scico (version 1.5.0 or later)
• sf (version 1.0-15 or later)
• here (version 1.0.1 or later)
• tictoc (version 1.2 or later)
• rmapshaper (version 0.5.0 or later)
• countrycode (version 1.5.0 or later)
• readxl (version 1.4.3 or later)
• broom (version 1.0.5 or later)
• tidyr (version 1.3.1 or later)
• flextable (version 0.9.4 or later)
• gridExtra (version 2.3 or later)
• Rfast (version 2.1.0 or later)
• matrixStats (version 1.2.0 or later)

Open Source Repository

• The source code is available at: GitHub Repository

Software License

• Run license() in R after installing the software. See https://www.r-project.org/Licenses/
• This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), either Version 2 (June 1991) or Version 3 (June 2007).