Make and host your own blog using R and GitHub
Details
One of the awesome R-Ladies London organizers, Claudia (https://twitter.com/clavitolo), gave a presentation (https://github.com/rladies/meetup-presentations_london/blob/master/2017-04-26_Make_your_own_blog/Make_your_own_blog.pdf) last month on how to create & host a Blogdown website using R and GitHub. We are going to re-create Claudia's workshop in the Bay Area at our next meetup! Here is the meetup description from the R-Ladies London Blogdown meetup (https://www.meetup.com/rladies-london/events/239404233/) event.
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))
