R Observatory: Metrics for bookdown version 0.48

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bookdown

0.48Package record

Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown

31packages dependsuggested by 187

979.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Output formats and utilities for authoring books and technical documents with R Markdown.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("bookdown", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("rstudio/bookdown")

Development version from rstudio/bookdown. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-bookdown

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-bookdown

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-bookdown

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.48

READMEYes · 364 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · does not mention 0.48Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 17 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 13%
Documented parameters: 75%
Return-value docs: 31%
Help pages citing references: 12%

Vignettes (1)

Learn bookdown HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

979.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #413 · ~2.7K/day · ~81.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

66.7K30 days

206.9K90 days

979.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on15.8K r2u43 autocran18.3K conda_forge249 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/bookdown ↗Organization: rstudio

4,084Stars

1,280Forks

214Open issues

15Open PRs

48Releases

1,895Commits

117Commit identities

bookdownbookgitbooklatexhtmlepubrmarkdown

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 1,895 commits · Last activity 2026-09-18 · +0.2% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.48.1, ahead of CRAN 0.48 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-20 · 3,9322026-10-16 · 4,084

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/bookdown on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (3)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templates

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-04-09
Seen in the repository: .github/copilot-instructions.md, .github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 2 by its own account · at least 1 crediting it in the message
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-05-05
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 2 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.82 commits · Jul to Aug 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

24 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bookdown adds 25 packages (14 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB, rmarkdown 2.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (7)

htmltools knitr rmarkdown jquerylib xfun tinytex yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (17)

bslib downlit htmlwidgets jsonlite curl rstudioapi miniUI rsconnect servr (>= 0.13)shiny tibble testit tufte xml2 webshot testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

31direct

19indirect

Imports 31

Suggested by 187

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

flextable permute lintr fitdistrplus modelsummary cols4all gap gbm tables epiR DFBA huxtable BradleyTerry2 rticles markovchain heplots officedown

and 170 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (51)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2016)

JJ Allaire

Contributor

Jeff Allen

Contributor · added in 0.5

Dean Attali

Contributor · added in 0.5

Sahir Bhatnagar

Contributor · added in 0.5

Michal Bojanowski

Contributor · added in 0.5

Jennifer Bryan

Contributor · added in 0.5

Kevin Cheung

Contributor · added in 0.5

Shir Dekel

Contributor · added in 0.22

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Christophe Dervieux

Contributor · added in 0.5

Zhuoer Dong

Contributor · added in 0.5

Daniel Emaasit

Contributor · added in 0.5

Clifton Franklund

Contributor · added in 0.7

Aust Frederik

Contributor · added in 0.10

FriendCode Inc

Copyright holder, Contributor

The gitbook style, with modifications

Vincent Fulco

Contributor · added in 0.5

Maximilian Held

Contributor · added in 0.5

Peter Hickey

Contributor · added in 0.5

Junwen Huang

Contributor · added in 0.5

Chester Ismay

Contributor · added in 0.5

Albert Kim

Contributor · added in 0.5

Romain Lesur

Contributor · added in 0.14

Matthew Lincoln

Contributor · added in 0.5

Pedro Rafael D. Marinho

Contributor · added in 0.22

Ben Marwick

Contributor · added in 0.5

MathQuill contributors

Contributor

The MathQuill library; authors listed in inst/resources/AUTHORS

Jonathan McPhers

Contributor · added in 0.5

Kirill Muller

Contributor · added in 0.5

Andrzej Oles

Contributor · added in 0.5

Thierry Onkelinx

Contributor · added in 0.8

Yixuan Qiu

Contributor · added in 0.5

Bastiaan Quast

Contributor · added in 0.5

Joyce Robbins

Contributor · added in 0.16

Noam Ross

Contributor · added in 0.8

Michael Sachs

Contributor · added in 0.5

Alessandro Samuel-Rosa

Contributor · added in 0.5

Luciano Selzer

Contributor · added in 0.5

JooYoung Seo

Contributor · added in 0.14

Kim Seonghyun

Contributor · added in 0.5

David Shuman

Contributor · added in 0.5

Steve Simpson

Contributor · added in 0.5

Bartek Szopka

Contributor

The jQuery Highlight plugin

Drew Tyre

Contributor · added in 0.5

Kevin Ushey

Contributor · added in 0.5

Ellis Valentiner

Contributor · added in 0.8

Nathan Werth

Contributor · added in 0.16

Hadley Wickham

Contributor · added in 0.5

Atsushi Yasumoto

Contributor · added in 0.12

Frans van Dunne

Contributor · added in 0.5

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.34

Zeno Rocha

Copyright holder · added in 0.14

clipboard.js library

Listed in earlier versions (4)

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RStudio Inc

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.17

jQuery Foundation

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.22

jQuery contributors

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.22

RStudio, PBC

no longer listed · 0.18 to 0.33

Releases (48)

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-07-13
Total releases: 48 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 844 KB

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Cite this package

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citation("bookdown")

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bookdown version 0.48 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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