bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown

The R Series

by Yihui Xie

Generate printer-ready books and ebooks from R Markdown documents

A markup language easier to learn than LaTeX, and to write elements such as section headers, lists, quotes, figures, tables, and citations

Multiple choices of output PDF, LaTeX, HTML, EPUB, and Word.

Possibility of including dynamic graphics and interactive applications

Support for languages other than R, including C/C++, Python, and SQL, etc.

LaTeX equations, theorems, and proofs work for all output formats

Can be published to GitHub, bookdown.org, and any web servers

Genres: Programming, Technical, Writing

167 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 12, 2016

Reviews

[Clifton Franklund · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a relatively short, but very informative book on using the bookdown package in R. I plan to use this package to produce reproducible assessment reports for General Education. I may also use it to produce more complicated manuscripts. The basics are well-covered. I will need more instruction (and specific examples) in order to really learn the more advanced publication options. Fortunately, I'm pretty comfortable in HTML and LaTeX. I could have read this for free online. However, I wanted to provide some financially support to Dr. Xie's important work by getting a print copy (and I can never have enough books dealing with R).

[Akbar Ato · Rating 5 out of 5]

This books is short and handy.

For me, this book was a gem. I am so tired of writing in LaTeX and Word. With R Markdown, or any markdown file, I can just focus on writing part.

It gives practical ways of converting your written text in md files into readable formats, namely PDF, HTML, Word, and more.

If you’re writing books, book chapters, dissertations/theses, journal articles, go with bookdown package in R programming language.

[Ryan McShane · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is starting point for writing a book with R Markdown. However, many options are left to the user (for better and worse).

Time will tell whether this was useful for me!

[Yen-Chung Chen · Rating 5 out of 5]

In-depth and easy to follow documentation for the bookdown package.