Blogging with RMarkdown

Are you an R user who would like to share more online? How about starting a new blog, with R Markdown (Rmd)?

Maëlle Salmon (https://masalmon.eu/), R(esearch) Software Engineer and a proud R-Lady, will be helping us get started!

In this 2-hour course with live coding, we'll go on two short adventures:

• setting up a scientific Rmd blog with the Distill framework, and the distill package

• setting up a scientific Rmd blog with the Hugo website generator and the hugodown package (also quickly presenting blogdown)

We'll prepare for the adventures by defining what we expect of an Rmd blog. We'll end the course by reflecting on each adventure as well as mentioning important future paths such as how to promote your blog. You should leave the course ready to start an R Markdown blog with your tool of choice, and knowing where to find more resources and help.

Website: https://rmd-blogging-jozi.netlify.app/

About the speaker:

Maëlle works remotely from Nancy, France, where she lives with her family.
She is a research software engineer with rOpenSci, besides other projects. In particular, currently, she works on the "HTTP testing in R" book thanks to funding from the R Consortium. She created the R-hub blog that features more or less niche topics about R package development, also thanks to funding by the R Consortium.
She also volunteers as an associate editor for rOpenSci's Software Peer Review (peer-review system of R packages), the main manager of R-Ladies Global Twitter account, and a member of the R Weekly team.