Start bloggind using R blogdown

• Install blogdown package in RStudio

• Start a new project “Website using Blogdown”

  • This will install hugo automatically if it is not installed yet.

• Choose a favorite theme on hugo website

• Create a new website using the theme

install.packages('blogdown')

# Install Hugo and a theme
# blogdown::install_hugo("0.99.0")
# blogdown::install_theme(theme = 'halogenica/beautifulhugo', force = TRUE)

# This uses the popular beautiful hugo theme (my personal favorite)
blogdown::new_site(dir='newdir', theme = 'halogenica/beautifulhugo')

# Now you can create new post, either using the tools in Addins or using blogdown functions

blogdown::new_post(title='start using blogdown')

• Knit R markdown and Build Website
  • Turn on the Knit on Save option is you want to have automatic knitting.
  • Build Website is on the Build panel on the right side.
  • The final site is in the “public” folder of the project.

See also

• Computation on Windows Arm64 Computers
• Hello R Markdown