Project Kickstart-R

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.

Install in 5 Steps

Open RStudio and create a new project.

Run the following commands in RStudio to bootstrap your new project website with Project Kickstart-R:

1. Install the Blogdown dependency:

   install.packages("blogdown")

2. Install the Hugo dependency:

   install.packages("hugo")

3. Install the Academic dependency:

   blogdown::new_site(theme = "gcushen/hugo-academic", sample = FALSE, theme_example = FALSE)

4. Download Project Kickstart-R:

   download.file( url = "https://github.com/sourcethemes/project-kickstart-r/archive/master.zip", destfile="project-kickstart-r.zip")

5. 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.

License

Copyright 2018-present George Cushen.

Released under the MIT license.