bookdown is an R package for authors to write books and long-form articles using R Markdown
The bookdown package is an R package for authors to write books and long-form articles using R Markdown. For more information, see https://bookdown.org.
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How to force bookdown to render document with xelatex engine instead of pdflatex?
I use bookdown to render html books. How can render the same book using LaTeX enging xelatex instead of pdflatex?
This is the main code I use:
bookdown::render_book('index.Rmd', output_file='mybook.pdf','bookdown::pdf_book')
It keeps on saying !…
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Switching between output formats while generating downloadable RMarkdown reports from Shiny
I am trying to generate downloadable RMarkdown reports using Shiny. I have included radioButtons in the UI to allow the user to select the output format of the report (Word or PDF). The problem I am facing is that the format selection in the UI is…
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bookdown encoding set to LATIN1 instead of UTF-8
Why when i build a book using build book button it sets my encoding to LATIN1 instead of UTF-8?
Also, whenever i open a chapter (.Rmd file) i've got reopen it with UTF-8 encoding 'cause it changes back do LATIN1 even if i have just saved it in…
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Bookdown : Automatic figure numbering and cross-referencing doesn't work
I am trying to write my master's thesis in RMarkdown.
I first tried to fix an issue with the position of my figures in the pdf document, and used this method : https://stackoverflow.com/a/33801326.
So my YAML header looked like this :
title:…
Juliette Arco
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Rmarkdown Links - How to get the name of the current file without extension?
I am creating a bookdown document in which I provide a link for people to download the PDF, DOCX and TEX outputs of the current section they are looking at.
All output documents are in a folder named "Compilation" and have the same name of the…
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Cross-referencing within documents with R Markdown
I have a very simple document in R Markdown. Here is the code:
---
title: "Untitled"
output: html_document
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# R Markdown {#r-mkdw}
This is an R Markdown document. Markdown is a simple formatting syntax for authoring HTML, PDF, and MS Word…
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APPENDIX numbering in pdf and html is different in bookdown
I am writing a book in bookdown. In my appendix rmarkdown file, I wrote the following -
\backmatter
# (APPENDIX) Appendix {-}
# Appendix A
## Basic Data Structure in `R`
# Appendix B
## Text Mining in `R`
## Social Media Analytics in `R`
##…
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How to combine endfloat, markdown formatting and wordwrap in bookdown::pdf_document2 table
I am writing a Rmarkdown document using bookdown::pdf_document2 for which I have a table that needs to do several very specific things, but I simply cannot find the solution to get all of them to work at the same time:
The table needs to float to…
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How do I get Bookdown to properly knit a PDF with multiple code chunks?
I am transitioning to Bookdown from Markdown. Although it seems as though this should be straightforward I am getting an unexpected knit failure once I have added the 3rd (usually) code chunk in a chapter (not index.rmd) file. I have tried using…
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How to build a latex kable through bookdown::render_book?
Here is a file kable.Rmd that knits properly in RStudio:
---
title: "latex kable"
output: pdf_document
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```{r table1, echo=FALSE}
library(magrittr)
library(kableExtra)
kable(data.frame(a=c(1,2,3), b=c(4,5,6))) %>%
kable_styling(latex_options =…
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How to build a bookdown book that is not in the top-level directory in RStudio?
The bookdown docs say after setting up _bookdown.yml appropriately,
Then you can click the Build Book button in the Build pane in RStudio
to compile the Rmd files into a book
I see no "Build Book" button in my RStudio, even after restart.
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Is there a package or other convenient means of keeping a research diary for a RStudio project?
I'm embarking on an ambitious RStudio project, one that's similar to Jack Dougherty's On the Line collaborative book-in-progress about Hartford. I'm finding I need to keep several different kinds of notes: on the research itself, on my R coding, on…
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Bookdown in-chapter formatting: different pages per paragraph
We - bookdown noobs - are making a bookdown with a lot of text per paragraph (using the minimal bookdown as a template, we only added new Rmd files from here). At the moment, one has to scroll a long time before reaching the end of a chapter,…
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How to center align a table in Bookdown using the R kableExtra package?
I am using RStudio with a Bookdown template and am trying to place my table in the middle of the page. I am using the position command as per the example code developer's page to center-align the table. Upon knitting to HTML, the table remains…
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I have tags such as this interspersed in one of my bookdown chapters:
When I run a regular RMarkdown html report the auto players are inserted at the right spots. When I run bookdown all of…
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