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Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown

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We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to rstudio/bookdown to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars: 4.1k
Forks: 1.3k
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 214

Dominant language: JavaScript
License: GPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: No beginner labels indexed
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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Math on e-ink devices (reprise)
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1520 · Opened Mar 1, 2026
Using pandoc default.latex template results in: ! LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1510 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 12, 2025
pdf_document2 bibliography references not properly rendered or linked since recent pandoc changes
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

rstudio/bookdown#1506 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2025
Figure captions created by Bookdown aren't recognized by Word's "Insert List of Figures" function
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feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1499 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 9, 2025
[FR] Setting float option "H" for tables
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

rstudio/bookdown#1498 · Opened May 14, 2025
Re-licensing bookdown as MIT
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

rstudio/bookdown#1497 · 37 comments · Opened Apr 25, 2025
Fix bookdown book rendering on CI
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rstudio/bookdown#1493 · Opened Mar 14, 2025
Positron support for book project creation
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1492 · Opened Mar 14, 2025
Issue with Leaflet's addPolygons in bs4_book
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bs4_book :hiking_boot: bug external

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1491 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 8, 2025
No bs4_book chunk line numbering
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bs4_book :hiking_boot: external

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rstudio/bookdown#1486 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 22, 2025
Figures wrapped in text have an unexpected caption placement when knitting to .html
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rstudio/bookdown#1485 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 30, 2024
Markdown To-Do List Not Formatting Correctly
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1482 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 4, 2024
Fontawesome icons not showing in `bs4_book`
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bs4_book :hiking_boot: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rstudio/bookdown#1474 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 16, 2024
Using a reference with formulas inside of a figure caption, breaks the generated HTML
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rstudio/bookdown#1473 · Opened Aug 5, 2024
Figure Caption do not continue in next page
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question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1468 · 1 comment · Opened May 13, 2024
How to write bold but non-Italic Geek letters in bookdown html
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

rstudio/bookdown#1465 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 13, 2024
"Error in `path_to_connection()`" if one of the files to be compiled has the same name as the final file although in a subfolder
May be free again @atusy claimed this 953 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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bug

rstudio/bookdown#1464 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 4, 2024
I ran into some problems when using VSCODE to knit RMD
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

rstudio/bookdown#1461 · 10 comments · Opened Mar 30, 2024
[FR] pdf_book compilation: for easier refactoring LaTeX chunks please remove _main.Rmd file
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1460 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 14, 2024
The manual's recommendation of only previewing the web version is dangerous.
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question

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1453 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 13, 2024
[FR] Multi language support
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rstudio/bookdown#1445 · Opened Oct 24, 2023
html output error with echo=FALSE option
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

rstudio/bookdown#1444 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 11, 2023
crosstalk html widget doesn't display the figure caption
May be free again @yihui claimed this 1131 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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feature

rstudio/bookdown#1443 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 9, 2023
[FR] Allow to use `$$` for numbering equation in **bookdown**
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1441 · Opened Oct 4, 2023
[FR] Typst Support
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rstudio/bookdown#1439 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 28, 2023
[FR] Add support for the YALM setting "language: ui: references_name" to change the title of references section in html output
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rstudio/bookdown#1437 · 7 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2023
.unlisted and .unnumbered not excluding tagged headers from TOC
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question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1436 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 11, 2023
How could I add a link for the "Edit" icon to private Bitbucket repo?
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bs4_book :hiking_boot: help wanted :heart:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rstudio/bookdown#1435 · 11 comments · Opened Jun 30, 2023
[FR] More flexible table of contents in tufte_html_book
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feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1434 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2023
[FR] Two-column layout for .docx files
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feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1433 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 21, 2023
[FR] Pandoc 2.19+ allows to opt-out mathml in epub3 format and choose other math method too
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feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

rstudio/bookdown#1424 · Opened May 4, 2023
[FR] label chunk with an object
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rstudio/bookdown#1419 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 3, 2023
Add a cover page and a last page to pdf book
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rstudio/bookdown#1418 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 30, 2023
[Pandoc 3] Allow to deactivate title page in epub book
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feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1415 · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 28, 2023
Word to Markdown?
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rstudio/bookdown#1414 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 23, 2023
LaTeX failed to compile TEX file. Path to images have no file extensions.
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rstudio/bookdown#1412 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 12, 2023
Add a workflow to test some external book example
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rstudio/bookdown#1409 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 28, 2023
Bookdown incorrectly links to functions for generics and there's no way to change defaults
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bs4_book :hiking_boot:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1406 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 25, 2023
Is it possible to alter prefix for automated numbered figure/table captions for use in supplementary information documents? [FR]
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1405 · Opened Feb 18, 2023
Improve error message for LaTeX document by adding line number
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feature help wanted :heart:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

rstudio/bookdown#1404 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 14, 2023
placing references before appendix does not work with natbib
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feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1403 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 8, 2023
_ _ _ wrongly listed as author in HTML references
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rstudio/bookdown#1401 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 31, 2023
References at the end of each chapter in pdf book
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feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rstudio/bookdown#1400 · 8 comments · Opened Jan 11, 2023
Wrapping missing in some circumstances causing an overflow
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1397 · Opened Dec 19, 2022
[FR] word_document2 render docx with hyperlink.
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1392 · Opened Nov 2, 2022
[FR]how to wrap chapter titles on the page headers on Bookdown/Rmarkdown?
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question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

rstudio/bookdown#1391 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 16, 2022
For epub_book output I get warning message "The label(s) thm:tri not found" during build of official template
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rstudio/bookdown#1387 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2022
Underscore does not appear in script
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rstudio/bookdown#1383 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2022
[FR] Make the "On this page" menu in bs4_book accessible on mobile
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bs4_book :hiking_boot: feature theme: mobile friendly

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rstudio/bookdown#1381 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 1, 2022
[FR] Support TOC depth customization in `bs4_book`
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bs4_book :hiking_boot: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

rstudio/bookdown#1378 · Opened Aug 31, 2022

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