[R-pkg-team] Bug#946084: ITP: r-cran-bookdown -- authoring books and technical documents with GNU R markdown

[Andreas Tille]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Subject: ITP: r-cran-bookdown -- authoring books and technical documents with GNU R markdown
Package: wnpp
Owner: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : r-cran-bookdown
  Version         : 0.16
  Upstream Author : Yihui Xie,
* URL             : https://cran.r-project.org/package=bookdown
* License         : GPL-3
  Programming Lang: GNU R
  Description     : authoring books and technical documents with GNU R markdown
 The bookdown package is a GNU R package that facilitates writing books
 and long-form articles/reports with R Markdown. Features include:
 .
  * Generate printer-ready books and ebooks from R Markdown documents.
  * A markup language easier to learn than LaTeX, and to write elements
    such as section headers, lists, quotes, figures, tables, and
    citations.
  * Multiple choices of output formats: PDF, LaTeX, HTML, EPUB, and Word.
  * Possibility of including dynamic graphics and interactive
    applications (HTML widgets and Shiny apps).
  * Support a wide range of languages: R, C/C++, Python, Fortran, Julia,
    Shell scripts, and SQL, etc.
  * LaTeX equations, theorems, and proofs work for all output formats.
  * Can be published to GitHub, bookdown.org, and any web servers.
  * Integrated with the RStudio IDE.
  * One-click publishing to https://bookdown.org.

Remark: This package is maintained by Debian R Packages Maintainers at
   https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-bookdown