> It's not for authoring statistical papers (as the other comments stated While you are technically right what will most likely happen is what we can already s

> It's not for authoring statistical papers (as the other comments stated While you are technically right what will most likely happen is what we can already see (on https://bookdown.org/ https://bookdown.org/) - exactly what I described in my comment. Of course one could write a novel with it. Any publishing tool can be used to publish "just text". But who is going to end up using this tool? Pretty much only people already using R, and that - apart from people taking a course - is people doing statistics. I looked at two randomly selected pages in two randomly selected books on the homepage (I swear I didn't click on more than those two to select examples that fit my narrative), both show it's being used just as I said. - http://r4ds.had.co.nz/exploratory-data-analysis.html http://r4ds.had.co.nz/exploratory-data-analysis.html - https://bookdown.org/robertkck/ecf_draft/low-carbon-is-promising.html#low-carbon-technology-in-innovation-and-export https://bookdown.org/robertkck/ecf_draft/low-carbon-is-promi... (this one has interactive graphics) My reply was aimed at someone who doesn't seem to know any of the background story. I agree with you that it's a nice tool for a lot of purposes.