rblog

Example blog with RStudio, RMarkdown and Jekyll.

Prerequisits

Install R language, RStudio, Git Bash and Jekyll(Optional if using Github pages)

Install the latest version of the knitr package: install.packages("knitr")

Install other packages as per requirement, Like install.packages("ggplot2"); for drawing graphs etc.

Make a theme in Jekyll or use ready-made ones available here for your blog

Make a new repository in GitHub with a default branch of gh-pages and upload that jekyll theme in it

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## Cloning jekyll blog in RStudio

• File, New project, Version control, Clone git
• Repository URL :https://github.com/your repository
• Project directory name : your project directory name

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Publishing first post in your jekyll blog

New post can be added by two methods

1. User interface
2. Command line

### 1. User interface

• First of all in RStudio goto Tools -> Project Project Options -> Sweave -> Select knitr is default option -> Ok
• You have to download R Blog (Jekyll) template from here
• Place r_blog directory in rmarkdown/rmarkdown/templates
• After that goto File-> New File -> RMarkdown -> From Template -> Select a template R Blog (Jekyll)
• After that add RMarkdown code in the newly created file save it in _posts directory of your blog with the name Y-M-D-title e.g 2016-08-24-blogtitle
• As Jekyll supports markdown files, so you have to convert rmarkdown to markdown in RStudio by clicking Knit Html link
• Now push only md files to github(if using gh-pages)
• After that visit your blog and check the post

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2. Command line

Making post from Command line requires some packages to install from RStudio console

• install.packages(c("knitr", "servr", "devtools"))
• devtools::install_github("hadley/lubridate")
• devtools::install_github("brendan-r/brocks")
• After installation brocks package will appear in Packages of RStudio
• By clicking brocks the user can see all the functions which brocks provides
• After that write library(brocks) on RStudio console and hit enter
• For making post from console new_post(title = "new post", serve = TRUE, dir = "_source", subdir = TRUE, skeleton_file = ".skeleton_post")
  e.g new_post(title = "This is second blog", serve = TRUE, dir ="F:/GitHub/rblog/_posts", subdir = FALSE)
• Write your rmarkdown code
• Click knit html link, it will produce md file, push that md file to github
• Visit your blog the post will appear

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## Final output