R Observatory: Metrics for bookdown version 0.47

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bookdown

0.47

Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown

213packages depend

989.6Kdownloads / year

34.7%test coverage

13/13checks 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

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

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

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
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

READMEYes · 364 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 75%
Return-value docs: 31%
References docs: 12%

Downloads

989.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #380 · ~2.7K/day · ~82.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

65.9K30 days

242.4K90 days

989.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on10.7K r2u45 autocran17.8K conda_forge52 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ rstudio/bookdown

4,069Stars

1,280Forks

216Open issues

15Open PRs

47Releases

1,890Commits

116Contributors

bookdownbookgitbooklatexhtmlepubrmarkdown

License GPL-3.0 · 1,890 commits · Last activity 2026-08-17 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-19 · 3,9042026-08-17 · 4,069

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 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Show all practices

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

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

213direct

18indirect

and 165 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (51)

Maintainer (1)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (48)

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

Show 40 more contributors

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

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

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

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

Copyright holders (3)

FriendCode Inc

Copyright holder, Contributor

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.34

Zeno Rocha

Copyright holder · added in 0.14

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.34

Listed in earlier versions (4)

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

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 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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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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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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Cite this package

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citation("bookdown")

Format

Xie, Y., Posit Software, PBC, Allaire, J., Allen, J., Attali, D., Bhatnagar, S., Bojanowski, M., Bryan, J., Cheung, K., Dekel, S., Dervieux, C., Dong, Z., Emaasit, D., Franklund, C., Frederik, A., FriendCode Inc, , Fulco, V., Held, M., Hickey, P., Huang, J., Ismay, C., Kim, A., Lesur, R., Lincoln, M., Marinho, P. R. D., Marwick, B., MathQuill contributors, , McPhers, J., Muller, K., Oles, A., Onkelinx, T., Qiu, Y., Quast, B., Robbins, J., Rocha, Z., Ross, N., Sachs, M., Samuel-Rosa, A., Selzer, L., Seo, J., Seonghyun, K., Shuman, D., Simpson, S., Szopka, B., Tyre, D., Ushey, K., Valentiner, E., Werth, N., Wickham, H., Yasumoto, A., & van Dunne, F. (2026). bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown (Version 0.47) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bookdown

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bookdown version 0.47 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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