Project Kickstart-R provides a minimal template to create a Landing Page and Knowledge Sharing Platform with Academic and (R) Markdown.
Academic is a framework to help you create a beautiful website quickly.
Check out the demo of what you'll get in less than 5 minutes or view the documentation.
Open RStudio and create a new project.
Run the following commands in RStudio to bootstrap your new project website with Project Kickstart-R:
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Install the Blogdown dependency:
install.packages("blogdown")
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Install the Hugo dependency:
install.packages("hugo")
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Install the Academic dependency:
blogdown::new_site(theme = "gcushen/hugo-academic", sample = FALSE, theme_example = FALSE)
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Download Project Kickstart-R:
download.file( url = "https://github.com/sourcethemes/project-kickstart-r/archive/master.zip", destfile="project-kickstart-r.zip")
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Install Project Kickstart-R into your new project folder:
unzip( zipfile = "project-kickstart-r.zip", junkpaths = TRUE )
A browser tab should open, displaying your new website. Otherwise, check your RStudio console messages.
Finally, learn how to customize and deploy your site.
Copyright 2018-present George Cushen.
Released under the MIT license.