How to make a blog with R blogdown and Github Pages

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RStudio

RStudio™ is a new integrated development environment (IDE) for R.

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GitHub Pages

A free, static web host for open-source projects on GitHub
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Below we will create a static website in markdown with R programming language and deploy it to Github Pages. Don't be afraid if you are not familiar with R or markdown. The instructions are simple and anyone, even with a short experience in programming can easily follow them. You should also be familiar with the use of terminal because site building and page editing can't be accessed through a graphical interface as in a Content Management System (e.g. WordPress, Drupal, etc). Nevertheless, RStudio IDE makes the development much more user friendly and straightforward than just in a terminal and text editor.

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Hugo

Hugo is a general-purpose website framework for generating static web pages.
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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.

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GitHub

Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.
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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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