Download e-book for iPad: bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R by Yihui Xie

bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical records with R Markdown offers a miles more straightforward strategy to write books and technical courses than conventional instruments similar to LaTeX and observe. The bookdown package deal inherits the simplicity of syntax and suppleness for information research from R Markdown, and extends R Markdown for technical writing, for you to make greater use of rfile components reminiscent of figures, tables, equations, theorems, citations, and references. just like LaTeX, you could quantity and cross-reference those parts with bookdown. Your rfile may contain stay examples so readers can have interaction with them whereas analyzing the publication. The booklet could be rendered to a number of output codecs, together with LaTeX/PDF, HTML, EPUB, and observe, therefore making it effortless to place your records on-line. the fashion and subject of those output codecs will be customized.

We used books and R essentially for examples during this ebook, yet bookdown isn't just for books or R. such a lot positive aspects brought during this ebook additionally practice to different sorts of guides: magazine papers, stories, dissertations, direction handouts, research notes, or even novels. you don't have to take advantage of R, both. different offerings of computing languages comprise Python, C, C++, SQL, Bash, Stan, JavaScript, etc, even supposing R is healthier supported. you may also miss computing, for instance, to put in writing a fiction. This e-book itself is an instance of publishing with bookdown and R Markdown, and its resource is absolutely to be had on GitHub.