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# BOOKDOWN

## Write HTML, PDF, ePub, and Kindle books with R Markdown

<img src="https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/images/logo.png" alt="The bookdown logo" align="right" style="margin-left:1em;max-width:30%;" />

The **bookdown** package is an [open-source R package](https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown) that facilitates writing books and long-form articles/reports with R Markdown. Features include:

- Generate printer-ready books and ebooks from R Markdown documents.
- A markup language easier to learn than LaTeX, and to write elements such as section headers, lists, quotes, figures, tables, and citations.
- Multiple choices of output formats: PDF, LaTeX, HTML, EPUB, and Word.
- Possibility of including dynamic graphics and interactive applications (HTML widgets and Shiny apps).
- Support a wide range of languages: R, C/C++, Python, Fortran, Julia, Shell scripts, and SQL, etc.
- LaTeX equations, theorems, and proofs work for all output formats.
- Can be published to GitHub, bookdown.org, and any web servers.
- Integrated with the RStudio IDE.
- One-click publishing to https\://bookdown.org.

Below is a list of featured books. For a full list, please see the [archive](/archive/) page. For the full documentation of the **bookdown** package, please see the free [online book](https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/) _bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown_.
