bookdown
0.47Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown
214packages depend
982.5Kdownloads / year
34.7%test coverage
12/13checks pass
Overview
About
Output formats and utilities for authoring books and technical documents with R Markdown.
Install
Health
CRAN checks
1NOTE12OK
Failing flavors
- NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
Slowest check: 9.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-arm64
Code health
Yes
Tests · ratio 0.34
34.7%
Coverage · measured lines
100%
Documentation · exports
7
Dependencies · direct
Check history
- NOTE2026-08-0112 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
- OK2026-03-1014 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
Documentation
Documentation
READMEYes · 364 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
- Examples that run
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 75%
- Return-value docs
- 31%
- References docs
- 12%
Downloads
982.5K
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #385 · ~2.7K/day · ~81.9K/mo
Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.
78.4K30 days
245.5K90 days
982.5K1 year
Also on10.7K r2u12 autocran18K conda_forge52 c2d4u
Repository
Repository
4,061Stars
1,279Forks
216Open issues
16Open PRs
47Releases
1,890Commits
116Contributors
bookdownbookgitbooklatexhtmlepubrmarkdown
License GPL-3.0 · 1,890 commits · Last activity 2026-07-09 · +0.2% stars, 30d
Stars over time
2025-08-02 · 3,8992026-08-04 · 4,062
Forks over time
2025-07-29 · 1,2362026-08-01 · 1,279
Releases over time
2025-04-15 · 432026-07-07 · 47
Issues over time
2025-07-06 · 2132026-07-07 · 216
PRs over time
2025-04-04 · 152026-07-30 · 16
Commits over time
2026-07-09 · 1,8892026-07-12 · 1,890
Repository practices
Upstream repositoryBeta
5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository
Checks run against github.com/rstudio/bookdown on 2026-08-02.
Continuous integration (1)
GitHub Actions
Lint, format, editor (1)
RStudio project
Coverage (1)
Codecov
Governance and community (1)
Issue templates
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Git structural (1)
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Development tooling
AI-assisted toolingBeta
Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)
Earliest detected marker: copilot on 2026-04-09
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Most recent: claude on 2026-05-05
Evidence
- copilot: on 2026-04-09 · evidence A, D · sole bot-author seen
- claude: on 2026-05-05 · evidence B, D
Dependencies
Declared dependencies
24 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)
Depends (1)
R >= 3.5.0
LinkingTo (0)
none
Suggests (17)
Enhances (0)
none
Reverse dependencies
214direct
18indirect
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and 166 more packages.
Code & Tests
People & History
People (51)
Maintainer (1)
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Authors (1)
Author, Maintainer
Contributors (48)
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Listed in earlier versions (4)
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no longer listed · 0.18 to 0.33
Package Timeline
47 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.
- 0.47Latest
- RR 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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- RR 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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- 0.402024-07-02 · diff ↗
- RR 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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- 0.372023-12-02 · diff ↗
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- 0.352023-08-09 · diff ↗
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- 0.342023-05-09 · diff ↗
- RR 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
- 0.332023-03-07 · diff ↗
- 0.322023-01-17 · diff ↗
- 0.312022-12-13 · diff ↗
- 0.302022-11-09 · diff ↗
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- 0.272022-06-14 · diff ↗
- RR 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
- 0.262022-04-15 · diff ↗
- 0.252022-03-16 · diff ↗
- 0.242021-09-02 · diff ↗
- 0.232021-08-13 · diff ↗
- RR 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
- 0.222021-04-22 · diff ↗
- 0.212020-10-13 · diff ↗
- 0.202020-06-23 · diff ↗
- 0.192020-05-15 · diff ↗
- RR 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
- 0.182020-03-05 · diff ↗
- 0.172020-01-11 · diff ↗
- 0.162019-11-23 · diff ↗
- 0.152019-11-12 · diff ↗
- 0.142019-10-01 · diff ↗
- 0.132019-08-21 · diff ↗
- 0.122019-07-11 · diff ↗
- 0.112019-05-28 · diff ↗
- 0.102019-05-10 · diff ↗
- RR 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
- 0.92018-12-21 · diff ↗
- 0.82018-12-03 · diff ↗
- RR 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
- 0.72018-02-18 · diff ↗
- 0.62018-01-25 · diff ↗
- 0.52017-08-20 · diff ↗
- 0.42017-05-20 · diff ↗
- RR 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
- 0.32016-11-28 · diff ↗
- 0.22016-11-12 · diff ↗
- 0.12016-07-13
- RR 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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Package metadata
- First published
- 2016-07-13
- Total releases
- 47 / 10 yrs
- License
- GPL-3 OSI
- Minimum R
- ≥ 3.5.0
- Download size
- 844 KB
- Installed size
- not tracked yet
- With dependencies
- not tracked yet
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