Supplements for a book, "iTOS" = "Introduction to the Theory of Observational Studies."  Data sets are 'aHDL' from Rosenbaum (2023a) <doi:10.1111/biom.13558> and 'bingeM' from Rosenbaum (2023b) <doi:10.1111/biom.13921>.  The function makematch() uses two-criteria matching from Zhang et al. (2023) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2021.1981337> to create the matched data 'bingeM' from 'binge'.  The makematch() function also implements optimal matching (Rosenbaum (1989) <doi:10.2307/2290079>) and matching with fine or near-fine balance (Rosenbaum et al. (2007) <doi:10.1198/016214506000001059> and Yang et al (2012) <doi:10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01691.x>).  The book makes use of two other R packages, 'weightedRank' and 'tightenBlock'.

Implements the Interpolate, Truncate, Project (ITP) root-finding 
    algorithm developed by Oliveira and Takahashi (2021) <doi:10.1145/3423597>.
    The user provides the function, from the real numbers to the real numbers, 
    and an interval with the property that the values of the function at its 
    endpoints have different signs. If the function is continuous over this 
    interval then the ITP method estimates the value at which the function is 
    equal to zero. If the function is discontinuous then a point of 
    discontinuity at which the function changes sign may be found. 
    The function can be supplied using either an R function or an external 
    pointer to a C++ function. Tuning parameters of the ITP algorithm can be 
    set by the user. Default values are set based on arguments in Oliveira and 
    Takahashi (2021).

Parse, trim, join, visualise and analyse data from Itrax sediment core multi-parameter 
    scanners manufactured by Cox Analytical Systems, Sweden. Functions are provided for parsing 
    XRF-peak area files, line-scan optical images, and radiographic images, alongside accompanying metadata. 
    A variety of data wrangling tasks like trimming, joining and reducing XRF-peak area data are simplified. 
    Multivariate methods are implemented with appropriate data transformation.