bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown presents a much easier way to write books and technical publications than traditional tools such as LaTeX and Word. The bookdown package inherits the simplicity of syntax and flexibility for data analysis from R Markdown and extends R Markdown for technical writing so that you can make better use of document elements such as figures tables equations theorems citations and references. Similar to LaTeX you can number and cross-reference these elements with bookdown. Your document can even include live examples so readers can interact with them while reading the book. The book can be rendered to multiple output formats including LaTeX/PDF HTML EPUB and Word thus making it easy to put your documents online. The style and theme of these output formats can be customized. We used books and R primarily for examples in this book but bookdown is not only for books or R. Most features introduced in this book also apply to other types of publications: journal papers reports dissertations course handouts study notes and even novels. You do not have to use R either. Other choices of computing languages include Python C C++ SQL Bash Stan JavaScript and so on although R is best supported. You can also leave out computing for example to write a fiction. This book itself is an example of publishing with bookdown and R Markdown and its source is fully available on GitHub. . Language: English