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Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown

214packages depend
982.5Kdownloads / year
34.7%test coverage
12/13checks pass

Overview

About
Maintained by Yihui XieFirst published 2016-07-1347 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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
  • NOTE2026-08-01
    12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
  • OK2026-03-10
    14 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
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78.4K30 days
245.5K90 days
982.5K1 year
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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

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)
.gitattributes
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: copilot on 2026-04-09

copilotclaude

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
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies
24 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)
Depends (1)
R >= 3.5.0
LinkingTo (0)
none
Enhances (0)
none

Code & Tests

People & History

People (51)
Maintainer (1)
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Contributors (48)
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Funders (1)
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Listed in earlier versions (4)
no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.17
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Package Timeline

47 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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    R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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    R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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    R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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    R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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    R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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    R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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    R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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    R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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    2016-11-12 · diff ↗
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    2016-07-13
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    R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

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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