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Bookdown vs Read The Docs

A side-by-side look at Bookdown and Read The Docs. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Bookdown

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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Read The Docs

Read The Docs

Development

Read The Docs is a free and open-source tool created in Python to help developers easily build documentation for software projects using Sphinx, MkDocs and other static site generators. It provides continuous integration, web hosting for documentation, versioning and search functionality.

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