Hi guys! This is my first post on utopian.io. Hopefully it goes on the right way. This post was written bilingually, in English and Chinese.

> 嘿，你好！这是我在 utopian.io 发布的第一篇帖子。但愿我的发布方式没出什么岔子。本文用英文和中文写作，中文在后半部分。

## Introduction

This post is to introduce an open-source package called ***[bookdownplus](https://github.com/pzhaonet/bookdownplus)*** I have been developing with R language for writing assorted books and documents in bookdown environment. 

If you are a Steemian, or a markdown user, you might want to organize your posts in a friendly and elegant way. As far as I know, R *[bookdown](https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/)* package is the best tool to convert markdown files into a nice book. However, *bookdown* is not easy for beginners. An R beginner might be confused or depressed in struggling in the flood of LaTeX, YAML, Markdown, Pandoc, etc. 

*bookdownplus* is the easiest shortcut to the world of *bookdown*. With **just one single command** users can get a demo book (or multiple demo books) in pdf, Word document, html, epub, or even more formats. *bookdownplus* extends the features of *bookdown*, and simplifies the procedure. Users only have to choose a template, clarify the book title and author name, and then focus on writing the text. No need to struggle in YAML and LaTeX. 

## Features

Multiple templates are included in *bookdownplus*. With these templates *bookdownplus* helps you write academic journal articles, guitar books, chemical equations, mails, calendars, diaries, etc.. For instance, the theisis_classic can convet your markdown file into a pdf book like this:

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pzhaonet/bookdownplus/master/inst2/showcase/bookdownplus_thesis_classic.jpg)

and the poem template can make a nice poem book like this:

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pzhaonet/bookdownplus/master/inst2/showcase/bookdownplus_poem.jpg)

Even a book with guitar chords:

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pzhaonet/bookdownplus/master/inst2/showcase/bookdownplus_guitar.jpg)

If you have programing codes especially R codes in your posts, they can be integrated into your book in a reproducible way owing to the feature of R markdown, which looks like this:

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pzhaonet/bookdownplus/master/inst2/showcase/bookdownplus_nonpar.jpg)

## Quick start

-1.  [Download R](https://cran.r-project.org) and install it.

-2.  [Download LaTeX](http://www.ctex.org/CTeXDownload) and install it.

-3. In R environment, run the following codes to install bookdown and bookdownplus.

```
install.packages('bookdown')
devtools::install_github("pzhaonet/bookdownplus") # the development version 
# or the stable version from CRAN
install.package("bookdownplus")
```

-4. Generate a demo book.

``` 
require(bookdownplus)
bookdownplus()
```
## Link to the repo

https://github.com/pzhaonet/bookdownplus

## Proof of work

Here is a sreenshot of my login webpage.

![bdp.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1511772827/qnjkbxleoptsx5akqguq.jpg)


## Conclusion

Wouldn't it be cool to make your steem posts into such a book?

Enjoy R *bookdownplus* !

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本文介绍的是我开发的一个开源程序包，唤作 ***bookdownplus***，可以在 R 语言环境下制作各种书籍和文档。

如果你是 steem 或者 markdown 用户，你可能会想把你的帖子整理成一本漂亮的书跟别人分享。据我所知。R *['bookdown'](https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/)* 是将 markdown 格式的文件转化成书的最佳工具。可惜的是，*bookdown* 并不容易上手。R 语言初学者可能要为 LaTeX, YAML, Markdown, Pandoc 等折腾很久，也享受不到 bookdown 带来 的快乐。

于是我开发了 bookdownplus。

bookdownplus 是对 bookdown 的增强和简化, 是快速使用 bookdown 的最简洁方法。bookdownplus 提供了很多有用的模板，可以很方便地在 bookdown 平台写文集、期刊论文、学位论文、学术海报、化学分子式、信件、日记、日历、诗集、吉他谱等各种常用文档和书籍。这是功能上的增强（+）。bookdownplus 使用时只需指定一个模板，给定作者和书名，就可以一键生成模板文件，用户在模板文件里照猫画虎写自己的文字就可以了，不必再花力气上网找模板、设置 YAML 和 LaTeX。这是操作上的简化（-）。

上文给了几个图示，分别展示了 bookdownplus 生成的文章合集、诗集、吉他谱、编程书籍的示例。

怎么样，快来用 bookdownplus 把你的 steem 帖子做成一本漂亮的书吧!

<br /><hr/><em>Posted on <a href="https://utopian.io/utopian-io/@dapeng/introduction-to-bookdownplus-an-r-package-for-writing-assorted-books-and-documents">Utopian.io -  Rewarding Open Source Contributors</a></em><hr/>