bookdown

Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 7/1/1; 2026-04-06): #rstats Q: A section here describes automating GH actions for a bookdown book. Is there something similar for a #Quarto book?
orchid00.github.io/actions_sand… ↪

• https://orchid00.github.io/actions_sandbox/websites-using-pkgdown-bookdown-and-blogdown.html

Naupaka Zimmerman (@phytobio.me; 2/0/0; 2026-04-06): I appreciate that all the figure/table cross refs etc are built in instead of having to wrangle bookdown. Means it’s a more streamlined experience for complex documents like manuscripts, which is a primary use case for me. Sweave could do all that, but it’s easier to read/write markdown vs TeX. ↪

Ben Linzmeier (@delta18o.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-04-03): You could use the Bookdown package so it is all in R. Code + Text? Plus specifying package and R versions in it is probably possible? I haven’t looked very closely at it recently. ↪

knitr

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 11/1/0; 2026-04-10): I think that has become my pattern—trying to avoid pandoc, knitr, htmlwidgets, jquery, bootstrap… For this particular pkg, if two