

Bookdown
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The bookdown package is a free and open-source R package built on top of R Markdown to make it really easy to write books and long-form articles/reports.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Java Mobile
- Self-Hosted
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What is Bookdown?
The bookdown package is an open-source R package that facilitates writing books and long-form articles/reports with R Markdown. Features include:
- 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 a wide range of languages: R, C/C++, Python, Fortran, Julia, Shell scripts, 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.








