bookdown
R package for writing books and long-form documents in R Markdown, rendered to HTML, PDF, LaTeX, EPUB and Word.
pkgs.rstudio.com/bookdown/repositorydocs
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 says the HTML output files can be hosted as static HTML files. The package site 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.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Static files6
- Rendering
- Static output6
- Install with
- install.packages("bookdown") from CRAN5
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-23: links
pkgs.rstudio.com/bookdown/ - 2026-10-23: links, Written in, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/rstudio/bookdown - 2026-10-23: links
pkg.yihui.org/bookdown/ - 2026-10-23: Maintainer, Runtime, Minimum runtime, License
raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/bookdown/main/DESCRIPTION - 2026-10-23: Categories, Install with, License model
raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/bookdown/main/README.md - 2026-10-23: Rendering, Runs as
pkg.yihui.org/bookdown/github.html - 2026-10-23: First release, Current major version, Last release
api.github.com/repos/rstudio/bookdown/releases - 2026-10-23: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/rstudio/bookdown/contributors