Bookdown vs mdBook
A side-by-side look at Bookdown and mdBook. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
Bookdown
Education & Reference
Bookdown is an open-source R package that facilitates writing books and long-form content with R Markdown. It extends the functionality of R Markdown to easily generate books, reports, websites, presentations, and more with customizable layouts.
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mdBook
Development
mdBook is a command line tool and Rust crate to create books and documentation using Markdown files. It can generate HTML, PDF and eBook output, has themes and syntax highlighting support, and helps organize Markdown content into a book with table of contents generation.
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