Gitbook Projects with R Markdown

Author: Jason Bryer (jason@bryer.org)

Website: jason.bryer.org/Rgitbook

This page is for an R package used to interface with the Gitbook.io framework for developing books using Markdown. It provides complete access to the Gitbook commands while adding support for R Markdown and MathJax. See the R Gitbook for a tutorial on how to use this R package.

This R package can be downloaded directly from Github using the devtools package:

devtools::install_github('jbryer/Rgitbook')

Updates

• 2014-04-23 - Added support for citations using the knitcitations package. The newGitbook will create a references.Rmd and references.bib file.
• 2014-04-23 - Update to support new plugin architecture for using themes in Gitbook.