Is bookdown safe to use?

bookdown has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.46). DepScope rates its health at 58/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of bookdown?

The latest version of bookdown is 0.46, released 2025-12-05.

Does bookdown have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of bookdown.

Is bookdown deprecated?

No, bookdown is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.46 (2025-12-05).

What are alternatives to bookdown?

DepScope has no curated alternatives for bookdown at this time.

What license does bookdown use?

bookdown is licensed under GPL-3.

bookdown

cranv0.46

Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown. Output formats and utilities for authoring books and technical documents with R Markdown.

License GPL-3strong copyleft0 versions1 maintainers7 deps21,212 weekly dl

rstudio/bookdown

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 58/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

10/20

popularity

25/25

security

0/15

maturity

8/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

3.4/10

weak

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

2

Contributors (12m)

3

Primary author dominance

70%

GitHub stars

4,037

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (7)

htmltools knitr rmarkdown jquerylib xfun tinytex yaml

API access

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First published · 2025-12-11 11:41:24

Last updated · 2025-12-05T05:30:34+00:00