Keywords: R blogging, blogdown, GitHub, R Markdown
Webpages:
https://www.rstudio.com/rviews/,
https://github.com/rstudio/blogdown Blogging about
R presents its own technical challenges. The need to include sophisticated
R code, Shiny applications, R Markdown documents, and interactive graphics severely taxes traditional blogging platforms such as WordPress and Typepad. We believe that the new
blogdown package, which generates static websites using R Markdown and Hugo, represents the future of
R blogging. In this talk, we will describe the basics of the
blogdown package, and share our experiences editing and producing RStudio’s R Views blog using
blogdown as the blog engine and GitHub as the platform for coordination.
