jekyllthat

Basic RMarkdown to Github Flavored Jekyll, usefull for writting posts on a blog hosted on GitHub, straight from RStudio.

About

If ever you start a blog today, you definitely should use Blogdown, which is the best tool to create a blog within RStudio. As Yuhui pointed out on Twitter, you can generate Jekyll with {blogdown}, and here’s how to: https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/jekyll.html. I strongly advice you use this method.

But if (as me), you haven’t taken the time to convert to Blogdown, this package is here to help you being more efficient with RStudio and Jekyll. This is the package I use for colinfay.me.

{jekyllthat} contains :

• An RStudio Rmd template that you can get from New File > RMarkdown > From Template

• A Markdown format to turn Rmd into a github md for Jekyll. If you’re not using the template, add to your Rmd yaml :

output: jekyllthat::jekylldown

Worflow

Before using

The easier worflow is to keep your Rmd inside the _posts folder. If you want to do that, you should specify jekyll to ignore this in your config.yml. You can manually specifiy this in the exclude part, by adding :

• “*.Rmd"

You can also use the config_rmd(), that takes as argument the path to your config.yml. But as it is a 15 seconds job to do it manually, you should definitely do it manually.

How to use

With the addin

• Open the addin

• Fill the widget

• You’ve got your post with the right Rmd name \o/

With template

• Create a new post with New File > RMarkdown > From Template

• Fill / Modify the yaml as usual.

• Write and save into the _posts folder

Knit and send

• Knit to jekylldown

• Push to github

If you’ve followed the step described in “Before using”, you can push everything (Rmd, folders, md), only the .md will be built for your website.

To Do

• A better shiny widget

• Write tests

Contact

Questions and feedbacks welcome!

You want to contribute ? Open a PR :) If you encounter a bug or want to suggest an enhancement, please open an issue.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.