This is a sample book written in Markdown, which was put together to demonstrate how to create an online book or web site using the bookdown package in Rstudio. The final result can be viewed by clicking on the index.html file, found in the folder labeled _book. Below, we will discuss how this folder is created using the bookdown package from within the programming environment of R.

The files used and discussed here can be downloaded through this zip file (345 KB).

A talk given on the subject of using this document system for creating a web site for a slide rule collection is also available for download.