# bookdown

R package for writing books and long-form documents in R Markdown, rendered to HTML, PDF, LaTeX, EPUB and Word.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/bookdown_r/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- home: https://pkgs.rstudio.com/bookdown/
- repository: https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown
- docs: https://pkg.yihui.org/bookdown/
- forum: https://forum.posit.co/tags/c/R-Markdown/10/bookdown

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Yihui Xie
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2016
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: static
- language: r
- runtime: r
- runtimeMin: r 3.5
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: install.packages("bookdown") from CRAN

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: GPL-3

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-08-28

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 4088
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 108
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://pkgs.rstudio.com/bookdown/ (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/bookdown (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://pkg.yihui.org/bookdown/ (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/bookdown/main/DESCRIPTION (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/bookdown (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/bookdown/main/DESCRIPTION (read 2026-10-23)
- runtimeMin: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/bookdown/main/DESCRIPTION (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/bookdown/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- renderingModes: https://pkg.yihui.org/bookdown/github.html (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/bookdown/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://pkg.yihui.org/bookdown/github.html (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/bookdown/main/DESCRIPTION (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/bookdown/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/bookdown/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/bookdown/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/bookdown/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/bookdown (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/bookdown/contributors (read 2026-10-23)

## Notes

bookdown is an R package for writing books and long-form articles and reports with R Markdown. It is installed from CRAN and runs inside R, for example with `bookdown::render_book()`, which writes the HTML output to a `_book` folder by default. The [book chapter on GitHub](https://pkg.yihui.org/bookdown/github.html) says the HTML output files can be hosted as static HTML files. The [package site](https://pkgs.rstudio.com/bookdown/) is the project's homepage.

## Worth knowing

Pandoc must be installed, as the package's system requirements state. The README lists one-click publishing to Posit Connect among the ways to publish.

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