Then you can click the `Build Book` button in the `Build` pane in RStudio to compile the Rmd files into a book, or click the `Knit` button on the toolbar to preview the current chapter. To use `render_book` and the output format functions in the RStudio IDE, you can define a YAML field named `site` that takes the value `bookdown::bookdown_site`,^ and the output format functions can be used in the `output` field, e.g., Here are some command-line examples:īookdown ::render_book( 'foo.Rmd ', 'bookdown::gitbook ')īookdown ::render_book( 'foo.Rmd ', 'bookdown::pdf_book ')īookdown ::render_book( 'foo.Rmd ', bookdown ::gitbook( lib_dir = 'libs '))īookdown ::render_book( 'foo.Rmd ', bookdown ::pdf_book( keep_tex = TRUE)) You may either call this function from command line directly, or click the relevant buttons in the RStudio IDE. \index function similar to `rmarkdown::render()`, but it was designed to render _multiple_ Rmd documents into a book using the output format functions. Our main goal is not to replace _everything_ with Markdown, but to cover _most_ common functionalities required to write a relatively complicated document, and make the syntax of such functionalities consistent across all output formats, so that you only need to learn one thing and it works for all output formats. For example, it may be difficult to reinvent a certain complicated LaTeX environment in the HTML output using the (R) Markdown syntax. Under the constraint that we want to produce the book in multiple output formats, it is nearly impossible to cover all possible features specific to these diverse output formats. These are some of the problems that we have addressed in the **bookdown** package. There are still a few useful features missing in Pandoc's Markdown at the moment that are necessary to write a relatively complicated document like a book, such as automatic numbering of figures and tables in the HTML output, cross-references of figures and tables, and fine control of the appearance of figures (e.g., currently it is impossible to specify the alignment of images using the Markdown syntax).
More importantly, Pandoc makes it possible to generate output documents of a large variety of formats from Markdown, including HTML, LaTeX/PDF, Word, and slides. Pandoc () has greatly extended the () and added quite a few useful new features, such as footnotes, citations, and tables. Markdown is a wonderful language to write relatively simple documents that contain elements like sections, paragraphs, lists, links, and images, etc. To be able to customize the book templates and themes, you should be familiar with LaTeX, HTML and CSS.
The appendix of this book contains brief introductions to these software packages. For beginners, you may get started with the cheatsheets at. You do not have to be an expert of the R language to read this book, but you are expected to have some basic knowledge about R Markdown and **knitr**. To learn more about R Markdown, please check out the online documentation. It is not a comprehensive introduction to R Markdown or the **knitr** package, on top of which **bookdown** was built.
editor support (in particular, the RStudio IDE) and
how to customize the book templates and style different elements in a book how to generate multiple output formats such as HTML, PDF, and e-books for a single book how to typeset equations, theorems, figures and tables, and cross-reference them It focuses on the features specific to writing books, long-form articles, or reports, such as:
This book is a guide to authoring books and technical documents with R Markdown and the R package **bookdown**.