How to get started with the bookdown package 

I haven't done 1 and 3 so I don't have anything to offer there. On 2, it creates that every time you build your book.

@@davidgkeyes Having played around with it for a week: For #1 RStudio is nicely integrated with the Zotero open source tool. #3 works well out of the box for HTML and PDF outputs, however it's less nice with EPUB/MOBI (math typesetting is a bit ugly).

There isn't a way built into bookdown. This is something I and many people have wondered about, though. See twitter.com/dgkeyes/status/1387876087334543360

@@rfortherestofus Thanks for the tip, I think we are using the ShinyApp so need to probably push in that direction and just separate the docs into different audiences.

You are welcome!

When you build the whole book, it also creates a PDF file automatically. See bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/build-the-book.html

You could use GitHub Pages to show the rendered version, but not GitHub itself (that's just for showing the source code). Hope that helps!

@@rfortherestofus thanks a lot for the reply. I will try to do so.

I'm not sure I understand your question. Do you mind elaborating?

@@davidgkeyes yea no problem, I have RMD files that ive already knitted to html and theyre perfect, they have dark theme and table of contents on the side that let you click to a section in the project just the way i want, and I want to put these all together into one book only using the html files because I dont want to rerun the models used in the RMD files they will take too long and things might not work the same anymore

​@@larem8435 I believe you could just add them to a new project and follow the instructions in my video, creating a _bookdown.yml file that lists them all. This will have them be part of your book.

You can edit your .gitignore file just like any other project. Is that what you're asking about?

@@rfortherestofus When creating a bookdown, what files should it ignore other than the ones that are usually ignored by an R project? It seems to me that some extra files are created like when one works with LaTeX.

@@dskevinperezgarcia It's a good question, but it's not something I've had to deal with. I just left the default .gitignore and it works fine.

@@rfortherestofus gracias por tu respuesta.

@@dskevinperezgarcia Con mucho gusto!