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Learn bookdown

Overview

R Markdown: The Definitive Guide

If you are new to R Markdown, we recommend you start with R Markdown: The Definitive Guide to get an overview. Part I introduces how to install the relevant packages, and provides an overview of R Markdown, including the possible output formats, the Markdown syntax, the R code chunk syntax, and how to use other languages in R Markdown.

Next, the chapter on Books will help orient you to how the bookdown package allows you to use R Markdown to author books, using single or multiple .Rmd files to build your content.

User Guide

bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown

Written by Yihui Xie, the package author, bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown introduces the R package and how to use it. The book is published by Chapman & Hall/CRC, and you can read it online for free.

The book is structured into several chapters to guide the reader into the use of the R package bookdown to write books:

Going further with examples

https://bookdown.org is the place to find examples of books created with bookdown.

See more about how to publish a book or get your book listed on the About bookdown.org.

Look also at the “Examples” page.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.