Sharing Bookdown book without publicizing

Question

I'm working on a data analysis project in R, where I'm doing some logistic and multilevel modeling with sensitive, private data in R. I have fallen for the bookdown package in R, and I have created a fairly extensive book about our workflow and analysis pipeline. The thing is - I'm hosting this book locally on my computer, which means I have no real way to share this book with my team. In the past, I have created .html files with R Markdown or Jupyter, which then I could email or store in the cloud for others to open. Is there a way I can create a bookdown book that is shareable some other way than public URL access? Thanks--

Lota

Have you see the bookdown output formats? You can make, HTML, PDF, ebook, etc. – Hunker

That documentation has been super helpful. I was outputting to an HTML file, but saw that bookdown knits an HTML file for every chapter/section of the book. I was hoping for a single file for the whole book, but it appears I need to share the whole directory of HTML files in order for someone to see all the contents of the book. Unlike a PDF or Ebook, which is just one file. – Lota

Answer 1

I am also writing internal books for my organization. I think what I would do is to place the html file in the share drive so that only people with the share drive access can access your book.

Randell

Great to hear someone else is doing the same. Do you share the entire folder of HTML files generated by bookdown? Or do you have a single file you place in the share drive? – Lota

I would share all of them in a folder and ask people to start with the index file and the whole book will be rendered in the browser – Randell

What about sharing with people that don't have direct access to a shared folder directory? With Google Drive, for example, you need to download all of the files locally before opening because it just renders a preview when you try to open index.html. Surely there is a better way. – Trubow