This book is a guide to authoring books with R Markdown (Allaire et al. 2016) and the R package bookdown (Xie 2016a). It focuses on the features specific to writing books, long-form articles, or reports, such as

• How to typeset figures and tables, and cross-reference them;
• How to generate multiple output formats such as HTML, PDF, and e-books for a single book;
• How to customize the book templates and style different elements in a book;
• The editor support (in particular, the RStudio IDE);
• How to publish a book;

It is not a comprehensive introduction to R Markdown or the knitr package (Xie 2016b), on top of which bookdown was built. To learn more about R Markdown, please check out the online documentation http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com. For knitr, please see Xie (2015b). You do not have to be an expert of the R language (R Core Team 2016) to read this book, but you are expected to have some basic knowledge about R Markdown and knitr. For beginners, you may get started with the cheatsheets at https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/. To be able to customize the book templates and themes, you should be familiar with LaTeX, HTML and CSS.

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Motivation
  • 1.2 Get started
  • 1.3 Usage
  • 1.4 Configuration
  • 1.5 Two rendering approaches
  • 1.6 Some tips
• 2 Components
  • 2.1 Markdown syntax
  • 2.2 R code
  • 2.3 Figures
  • 2.4 Tables
  • 2.5 Cross-references
  • 2.6 Custom blocks
  • 2.7 Citations
  • 2.8 HTML widgets
  • 2.9 Web pages and Shiny apps
• 3 Output Formats
  • 3.1 HTML
  • 3.2 LaTeX/PDF
  • 3.3 E-Books
  • 3.4 A single document
• 4 Customization
  • 4.1 YAML options
  • 4.2 Theming
  • 4.3 Templates
  • 4.4 Internationalization
• 5 Editing
  • 5.1 Build the book
  • 5.2 Preview a chapter
  • 5.3 Serve the book
  • 5.4 RStudio IDE
• 6 PublishingReferences
  • 6.1 RStudio Connect
  • 6.2 GitHub
  • 6.3 Publishers
  • 6.4 Licensing
  • 6.5 Self-publishing

The book is available, here.

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