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This is a really good move. A lot of people have been offering Jupyter Notebooks along with their Books. This should bring down the effort in getting the book o

by amrrs 6y ago

This is a really good move. A lot of people have been offering Jupyter Notebooks along with their Books. This should bring down the effort in getting the book out. An important note though, R world has for something called 'bookdown' for quite sometime and many R developers have used it to write books. https://bookdown.org/ https://bookdown.org/ The only worry is that now a lot of data science enthusiasts are going to try to publish their Jupyter Notebooks collection as Kindle books!

mobilio 6y ago
That's nice! For first time i've seen huge resource about R.
thomascgalvin 6y ago
I'm personally a huge fan of `mdbook`, which seems to be the Rust equivalent of R's `bookdown`. I've switched out internal documentation over to it from `gitbook`. https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook
- asicsp 6y ago
  +1 for mdBook, easy to install (as compared to say honkit [0], a gitbook fork, that requires npm). I've recently started using it to generate web version of my ebooks. [0] https://github.com/honkit/honkit https://github.com/honkit/honkit
- miguendes 6y ago
  mdBook is nice indeed but it still lacks a proper way to create PDFs. `bookdown` has a very smooth way to do that. The only thing I don't like is that is very R centric in terms of syntax for adding tables, graphs and whatnot. It's not pure markdown. For things that will be online only mdBook is great. I'm currently testing honkit which is a gitbook-cli fork and it seems OK.
  - faceplanted 6y ago
    > It's not pure markdown. Be fair, it's not trying to be and not claiming to either.