#RMARKDOWN GITHUB WEBSITE FOR FREE#

enabling editing of the site from RStudio Thanks to Jan Gorecki whose answer on stackoverflow pointed me in this direction and IвЂ™ve copied some extra features like the Links and Index pages from his site. What attarcted me to it was that it takes a matter of minutes to set up initially and if you decide you donвЂ™t like it you can just delete. I used Barry Clarks amazing Jekyll-Now repository which you can fork directly from Github and start editing to customize. How I got here (steps) creating Jekyll site on Github I manage the site as an RStudio project, enabling me to edit text, keep track of files and interact with Git all from one interface. I simply edit files locally, then commit and push to Github. The site is created using Jekyll on Github, so I didnвЂ™t need to install Jekyll or Ruby.

#RMARKDOWN GITHUB WEBSITE FOR FREE#

The blog is hosted for free on Github (you get one free personal site). Rmd) and run an R function to convert them to markdown (. Now I have this blog set up so that I can write all of the posts (including this one) in RMarkdown (. A brief search revealed that was not straightforward and that Jekyll was the way to go. Initially I tried seeing if I could create posts using RMarkdown and put them into that wordpress blog. I have a wordpress site elsewhere that someone helped me set up a couple of years ago with a blog that IвЂ™ve never used.

I had used Rmarkdown and knitr before so wanted to use them. I wanted to be able to write about R related things without having to copy and paste code, figures or files.

push to Github where Jekyll renders the markdown.

In the first post of this new blog IвЂ™ll outline how IвЂ™ve set the blog up.

Rmarkdown github website