bookdown is an R package for authoring books and technical documents with R Markdown.
bookdown is built for R Markdown, an ecosystem of packages for creating computational documents in R.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- 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 formats: PDF, LaTeX, HTML, EPUB, and Word.
- Possibility of including dynamic graphics and interactive applications (HTML widgets and Shiny apps).
- 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.
- Integrated with the RStudio IDE.
- One-click publishing to https://bookdown.org.
Website: pkgs.rstudio.com/bookdown
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Yihui Xie and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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