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Creating your own website/ blog with R

An intro to the blogdown-package

Henning Bumann @ Tokyo.R

2017/04/01

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Many reasons to set up a website or blog

  • document projects
  • contribute to community
  • build a portfolio
  • practice writing
  • learn about web technology
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Many reasons to set up a website or blog

  • document projects
  • contribute to community
  • build a portfolio
  • practice writing
  • learn about web technology

    But it should be simple...

  • ... to set up,
  • ... to use and
  • ... to publish!
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Why should you consider a blog?

  • web is/ should be about collaboration, freedom and sharing (not surveillance)
  • you want to contribute, you need some kind of plattform to do so.
  • But it would be nice to be able to share R code with others!
  • I guess, most of us use RStudio for working with R and many of us wil use git and github to control and possibly share our source code. RStudio provides extensive support for literate programming and reproducable research via the knitr and rmarkdown packages.
  • easily contribute to R-bloggers or other blog aggregators

Choose the right tool for the job!

Hugo

  • very fast static site generator written in Go
  • seperates content and design
  • secure compared to CMS
  • good performance
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Choose the right tool for the job!

Hugo

  • very fast static site generator written in Go
  • seperates content and design
  • secure compared to CMS
  • good performance

RMarkdown

  • powerful literate programming tool
  • almost native solution for RStudio
  • offers many possible output formats
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Choose the right tool for the job!

Hugo

  • very fast static site generator written in Go
  • seperates content and design
  • secure compared to CMS
  • good performance

RMarkdown

  • powerful literate programming tool
  • almost native solution for RStudio
  • offers many possible output formats

🢣 blogdown-package by Yihui Xie!

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Demotime!

Image-Credit: Amber Thomas

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(Creating a Website locally)

Install Hugo

devtools::install_github("Rstudio/blogdown")
library(blogdown)
install_hugo()  # install Hugo

Create Website

new_site(theme = "frjo/hugo-theme-zen")  # create website
new_post("tokyo.R", rmd = TRUE)

Build (and publish)

build_site()
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  • Create site needs a empty folder
  • explain options(servr.daemon = TRUE)

Why I like blogdown

great

  • very easy to set up and use
  • Hugo is very fast!
  • allows to write blogposts from the comfort of your favorite editor. ;-)
  • great variability of easy to install themes
  • all the features of (html-)rmarkdown can be used

almost great

  • publication could be even more streamlined
  • not possible to add content outside of the editor
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I hope, you will build your own site soon!

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  • I shope you will also create a blogdown page soon (and tell me about it)
  • if you come to Germany in the future, please get in touch!

References

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Many reasons to set up a website or blog

  • document projects
  • contribute to community
  • build a portfolio
  • practice writing
  • learn about web technology
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