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

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.

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