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      bookdown

      by Yihui Xie

      Bookdown is an extension of RMarkdown that makes it easy to create longer documents and books. Bookdown is much easier to learn than LaTeX while offering much more control over formatting than Word. Bookdown also makes it easy to convert your files to HTML

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      Paperback
      LANGUAGE
      English
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      Publisher Description

      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.

      Author Biography

      Yihui Xie is a software engineer at RStudio. He is the author of several R packages, and interested in statistical computing, data visualization, and web technologies. He founded the largest online community for statistics "Capital of Statistics" in China in 2006. After publishing a few journal papers, a PhD thesis, and the book Dynamic Documents with R and knitr, the frustration with LaTeX eventually led to the creation of bookdown.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction. Components. Output formats. Customization. Editing. Publishing

      Review

      If you have written about statistics and included examples that are implemented in a programming language, you have struggled with the challenge of weaving together these two distinct forms of communication. Donald Knuth laid out a model of "literate programming" (1992) that prioritizes the clarity of computer code by embedding snippets of code within explanatory text. A new tool for authoring large-scale dynamic documents in this paradigm is the bookdown package, described by a book of the same name, and it stands as the most comprehensive and extensible tool available for R users... R Markdown...had limitations as well. There was no method to cross-reference figures in one chapter from another chapter of the book. The figures were not numbered successively. These problems, and many others, were solved by the release of the bookdown package...Xie has revolutionized the publishing of statistical reports using the knitr and rmarkdown packages and this is surely the next step in that revolution. His idea of books being versions instead of editions is ground-breaking. I look forward to the continual improvements to this bookdown package and this book in the years to come."~The American StatisticianThere could be a lot of interesting and unexpected ways that bookdown could be used to generate content. For example, automated software tests for clinical data analysis programs can be scheduled to run overnight and used knitr to create PDFs to show to auditors. The issue is that hundreds of files could be created. Bookdown could generate a much more organized and cross-referenced package to show to regulators during audits. ~ Max KuhnI definitely recommend publication, and as quickly as possible. People are waiting for this. The R/bookdown/knitr system is better than GitBook for scientific work with code and formulas, especially if combined with R Studio. ~ Jan de Leeuw, UCLAI would whole-heartedly recommend this book for publication. I think the ability to render long documents in a variety of formats, with text intermingled with code, will only grow in importance in future years. This book and associated package are clearly a major step towards being able to achieve this. The book was very well written, and notwithstanding the few suggestions I had for improvements, I think there is little modification that needs to be done before publication. I am sure it will prove interesting and useful to many readers. ~ Michael Grayling, U. of CambridgeBookdown is hugely useful for long-form documents: books, course notes, theses/dissertations. And I expect it to be widely adopted for those purposes…The book is quite nicely written: clear and concise. ~ Karl Broman, U. of WisconsinThe audience would absolutely include R users who are comfortable with Word but not LaTeX (for example, in my department, most of the graduate students have used R Markdown, but only a couple know LaTeX)…One huge advantage of bookdown is that you can have a current version of a book online as you develop it. ~ Brooke Anderson, Colorado State U.Simply amazing! Six hours, basic R and R Markdown knowledge, and I created a book using bookdown. ~ Lars Schoebitz
      If you have written about statistics and included examples that are implemented in a programming language, you have struggled with the challenge of weaving together these two distinct forms of communication. Donald Knuth laid out a model of "literate programming" (1992) that prioritizes the clarity of computer code by embedding snippets of code within explanatory text. A new tool for authoring large-scale dynamic documents in this paradigm is the bookdown package, described by a book of the same name, and it stands as the most comprehensive and extensible tool available for R users... R Markdown...had limitations as well. There was no method to cross-reference figures in one chapter from another chapter of the book. The figures were not numbered successively. These problems, and many others, were solved by the release of the bookdown package...Xie has revolutionized the publishing of statistical reports using the knitr and rmarkdown packages and this is surely the next step in that revolution. His idea of books being versions instead of editions is ground-breaking. I look forward to the continual improvements to this bookdown package and this book in the years to come."~The American StatisticianThere could be a lot of interesting and unexpected ways that bookdown could be used to generate content. For example, automated software tests for clinical data analysis programs can be scheduled to run overnight and used knitr to create PDFs to show to auditors. The issue is that hundreds of files could be created. Bookdown could generate a much more organized and cross-referenced package to show to regulators during audits. ~ Max KuhnI definitely recommend publication, and as quickly as possible. People are waiting for this. The R/bookdown/knitr system is better than GitBook for scientific work with code and formulas, especially if combined with R Studio. ~ Jan de Leeuw, UCLAI would whole-heartedly recommend this book for publication. I think the ability to render long documents in a variety of formats, with text intermingled with code, will only grow in importance in future years. This book and associated package are clearly a major step towards being able to achieve this. The book was very well written, and notwithstanding the few suggestions I had for improvements, I think there is little modification that needs to be done before publication. I am sure it will prove interesting and useful to many readers. ~ Michael Grayling, U. of CambridgeBookdown is hugely useful for long-form documents: books, course notes, theses/dissertations. And I expect it to be widely adopted for those purposes…The book is quite nicely written: clear and concise. ~ Karl Broman, U. of WisconsinThe audience would absolutely include R users who are comfortable with Word but not LaTeX (for example, in my department, most of the graduate students have used R Markdown, but only a couple know LaTeX)…One huge advantage of bookdown is that you can have a current version of a book online as you develop it. ~ Brooke Anderson, Colorado State U.Simply amazing! Six hours, basic R and R Markdown knowledge, and I created a book using bookdown. ~ Lars Schoebitz

      Review Quote

      There could be a lot of interesting and unexpected ways that bookdown could be used to generate content. For example, automated software tests for clinical data analysis programs can be scheduled to run overnight and used knitr to create PDFs to show to auditors. The issue is that hundreds of files could be created. Bookdown could generate a much more organized and cross-referenced package to show to regulators during audits. ~ Max Kuhn I definitely recommend publication, and as quickly as possible. People are waiting for this. The R/bookdown/knitr system is better than GitBook for scientific work with code and formulas, especially if combined with R Studio. ~

      Details

      ISBN113870010X
      Author Yihui Xie
      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
      ISBN-10 113870010X
      ISBN-13 9781138700109
      Format Paperback
      Imprint CRC Press
      Place of Publication London
      Country of Publication United Kingdom
      Pages 138
      Subtitle Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown
      DEWEY 808.0666
      Media Book
      Year 2016
      Affiliation RStudio, Inc. Boston, MA, USA
      Short Title Bookdown
      Language English
      AU Release Date 2016-12-19
      NZ Release Date 2016-12-19
      Series Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series
      Publication Date 2016-12-19
      UK Release Date 2016-12-19
      Alternative 9780367834258
      Audience Tertiary & Higher Education

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