Hello, are you ready to start?
In this workshop, we’ll build and deploy many websites. We’ll cover basic website care and feeding like using R Markdown to create content, and how to use
GitHub for version control and
Netlify for publishing. We will primarily use the RStudio IDE and R packages from the R Markdown family including distill and blogdown. Are you ready to get started? Read on…
The plan
Day 1: A GitHub profile, a
postcards page, & a distill site Day 2: A
blogdown site using the new theme You’ve been assigned to one of two sessions to attend both days:
Session A: 8am-10am ET
Session B: 1pm-3pm ET
Where to start? Prework!
Packages
R Markdown
The goal of the rmarkdown package is to provide output formats and tools for R users to create dynamic analysis documents that combine code, rendered output (such as figures), and prose. Read more
Blogdown
The goal of the blogdown package is to provide a powerful and infinitely customizable website output format for R Markdown. Read more
Distill
The goal of the Distill package is to provide an output format for R Markdown optimized for online scientific and technical communication. Read more
Thank you for joining me for these 2 days! I’d love to see your sites — if you are on twitter, be sure to share it with the #KeepGlobalGoing hashtag, and tag it with your package:
#rmarkdown#distill#blogdown
