template_r_documentation

This is a light template for documentation based on rmarkdown.

Overview

This is based on rmarkdown. As a quick look at how things work, the way the documentations glued together is:

1. _site.yml tells what should be at navigation bar and it also determines the overall style.
2. index.html and other files that are linked by _site.yml can further link to other files (namely sub contents).
3. run render_site([file-name]) to generate html file from Rmd file.
4. add, commit, and push everything at the end of the day.

Notes

1. docs/ contains all html files and be sure to enable Github Pages (docs/ mode).
2. put all Rmd files at rmd/ and in R terminal, run render_site('rmd/filename.Rmd') and it will generate the corresponding html at docs/

Build yourself

All you need to get started is the files in rmd/. Once you get them, do the following in R terminal:

setwd('some_path/template_r_documentation')
library(rmarkdown)
render_site(input = 'rmd/')

To render a new file, say new.Rmd, do:

render_site(input = 'rmd/new.Rmd`)

See also

This is a super light and lazy (quick) solution. It is inspired by this post and workflowr. To get a more advanced and prettier solution, please check out workflowr.