As user dvt mentioned, this is built using bookdown[1], an R library (with the h... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		btbytes on Jan 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Self-Published Book – “Data Science in Pr... As user dvt mentioned, this is built using bookdown[1], an R library (with the help of Pandoc). You can see that the example chapter of this book looks exactly like the bookdown output[2]. The bookdown PDF explains in detail how to use Rmd+RStudio+R+Pandoc+Markdown to publish this. [1]: https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/ [2]: https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/bookdown.pdf

bweber on Jan 5, 2020 [–]

Here's the complete source for the last text I authored using this pipeline: https://github.com/bgweber/StartupDataScience/tree/master/bo...

You can use the same tooling to create an epub output, but the formatting will be substantially different.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact