R Markdown project websites your users will love!

Image credit: Ruth Thomson

Abstract

Learn how R Markdown and Academic can help your team write, collaborate, and publish content online and internally. Examples include a landing page and documentation site for your package, a knowledge sharing platform, or a website for your lab/team.

Date
12 September 2018 3:30 PM — 5:00 PM
Location
London

Get started in 5 steps

Open RStudio and create a new project.

Run the following commands in RStudio to bootstrap your new project website with Project Kickstart-R:

install.packages("blogdown")
install.packages("hugo")
blogdown::new_site(theme = "gcushen/hugo-academic", sample = FALSE, theme_example = FALSE)
download.file( url = "https://github.com/sourcethemes/project-kickstart-r/archive/master.zip", destfile="project-kickstart-r.zip")
unzip( zipfile = "project-kickstart-r.zip", junkpaths = TRUE )

Customise your new site and deploy it.

Bonus: Create a personal website

Install and create a beautiful personal website with the RStudio wizard and (R) Markdown.

George Cushen
George Cushen
Data Science Leader, PhD

I’m a data science leader passionate about conversational AI, augmented/virtual reality, and Graph AI. In my spare time, I enjoy CrossFit and open source. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram to be notified of new content.