Make your website with R Markdown in minutes

This is a template (and tutorial) for creating your website with R Markdown in minutes.

The official document from RStudio can be found here.

Procedure

Prerequisites

• Make sure that you have the latest versions of R, RStudio and package rmarkdown. I had problems of encoding because of that.
• Make sure that you have enabled Git in RStudio. More information can be found here.
• You need a GitHub account.

Make the first version of your website

• Fork this repo and rename it to be 'YOURGITHUB.github.io' (in Settings of your brand new repo).
• Get the link from cloning the repo. Then, go to RStudio, create a New Project > Version Control > Git and copy this link. You have cloned your new repo as an R project.
• Use rmarkdown::render_site(encoding = "UTF-8") in the console.
• Commit and push everything from RStudio.
• Go see your new website at https://YOURGITHUB.github.io/.

Change the content of your website

• Modify _site.yml, index.Rmd, about.Rmd, cv.Rmd and CV.pdf with your own content.
• Use rmarkdown::render_site(encoding = "UTF-8") again. At any moment, you can preview your website locally, by rendering your site and viewing any of your local html file in your Web Browser.
• Commit and push everything from RStudio.
• Go see your new website with your own content at https://YOURGITHUB.github.io/.

The blog part

For now, the 'Blog' link is giving a 404 page.

I will introduce how to create your own blog in a future tuto.

An example

You can see for example my own website.

Conclusion

As a reminder, all credit goes to the geniuses at RStudio (thanks also to GitHub pages). I just made some minor modifications and made a tuto about how to use all this together.

If anything is false or not clear enough, feel free to contact me or open an issue.