How to make a blog with R blogdown and Github Pages

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  • blogdown

    Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown

  • menu: main: - name: About url: /about/ - name: GitHub url: https://github.com/rstudio/blogdown - name: Twitter url: https://twitter.com/rstudio

  • rmarkdown

    Dynamic Documents for R

  • R Markdown

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • Hugo

    The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

  • The website in R is created with the blogdown package. Blogdown is based on the popular static site generator Hugo that renders your markdown content into HTML files. In other words, Hugo will transform your content In other words, Hugo will transform your content so that any web browser can read it. You don't need to know much about Hugo at this stage since everything is done by blogdown package.

  • git

    A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches. (by git-for-windows)

  • Git

  • Puts Debuggerer

    Ruby library for improved puts debugging, automatically displaying bonus useful information such as source line number and source code.

  • In addition, publishing our website via Github Pages requires some additional customization. We will need to create a new repository on Github. For example, let's call it "rblogexample". In step 6, we'll take a look at how to deploy a website to Github more closely.

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