Make and host your own blog using R and GitHub

Have you ever thought of writing a blog? Maybe to tell the world about your R projects?

Come to our session and bring your laptop, we will explore together some options and you will go back home with a new blog that integrates nicely with R/Rstudio and it's hosted live on Github.

We will look at pros and cons of WordPress, Rmarkdown + HUGO and markdown + Jekyll. To experiment with all of them, please create a GitHub account and install the following software on your machine BEFORE the session:

• R (https://www.r-project.org/)
• RStudio (https://www.rstudio.com/)
• git (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git)
• jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/) (optional, here some instructions (https://scotch.io/tutorials/getting-started-with-jekyll-plus-a-free-bootstrap-3-starter-theme))

Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday!
Claudia