blogdown | Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown

I'm working on a convenience function in R that prints a publication quality LaTeX table from some common model objects. It all works just great for me on my Mac, but I've built it largely for a colleague who's on a PC, for whom the file writing fails when calling save_kable() from the kableExtra package.

We get no output whatsoever from this. No pdf and no error messages.

A simple reproducible example, which fails in the same way, is as follows:

I'd like to programmatically add tags to the YAML header of a blogdown post when clicking the "knit" button.

For example something like this:

I'm using blogdown and the lxndrblz/anatole theme to create a blog. The blog should have usual syntax highlighting, which should be supported.

When I create a new post in markdown (not Rmarkdown!) like the following, it works as expected.

Eg index.md (not Rmd!)

So I have been learning Blogdown to build my personal data blog: https://data-issues.netlify.app/

Built with the academic theme, I did change the colors with no issue.

I am making some changes in my params.yaml file but no changes I make here are happening. I but it seems like its identical to everything I've seen online.

So here is an excerpt from my params.yaml file.

So I am building my first data blog with RStudio and Blogdown and I am seriously stuck on something small but infuriating.

https://data-issues.netlify.app/

Above is the site I am building. I made a logo for it but I would like to make this centered. How would I do so in my markdown (.md) file.

Code here:

I am completely new to Rmarkdown and blogdown and I am having a hard time understanding how does .markdown, .Rmarkdown, .Rmd et .md etc... files are produced and, in some ways, are different working with Rstudio.

To be more specific, I am building a website with Hugo Apéro theme in Rstudio, hence with blogdown and Rmarkdown files.

I want to create a series of blogposts related to one another and with the TOC on the left side of the page just like Alison Hill did in her own blog here

In theory, this is not so hard and I managed to write the firsts blog posts in my own series with some math equations and everything that I wanted with some .Rmd files.

This is were it gets tricky, when I knit the said .Rmd files it produces only one .html file. I cannot find a way to produce the .md file necessary for hugo and/or blogdown (I do not really know what does what up to here) to produce the TOC of one specific blogpost. Looking at Alison Hill's blog posts it corresponds to the On this page TOC.

I know that Rstudio v2 need some work around to produce the .html and .md file (see this very specific question here) however, none of the proposed solutions seem to work for me.

I managed to produce an .markdown file from a .Rmarkdown file which render the TOC like I want, however, .Rmarkdown files are not the best for math rendering, (see Creating Websites with R Markdown - Ch1.5), are not created in Rstudio etc... which does not make me want to use this format (maybe that is a mistake ?)

The absence of TOC in the final page seem related to another element : a headers link button. Still, looking at Alison Hill's blog posts I notice a link button next to each headers that I do not have if I work with .Rmd file (which produce only .html file) but they appears with the .Rmarkdown file (which produce only .md file)

So I guess my question is :

1. How can I include a TOC from the .Rmd file ?

2. How can I create a .md file from .Rmd file in Rstudio ? and why none of these solutions work for me :

   • use the argument keep_md = TRUE in html_document()
   • call rmarkdown::render() with clean = FALSE
   • Use md_document as one of your output formats

Also, in working on my blog post I wanted to create pannelsets like in Hugo Apero documentation and it does not work with the first syntax in a .Rmd file :

I've been following the instructions here to install the R blogdown package and get my new site running. When I get to the step where I run serve_site(), I get the following error message:

I was following ApresHill's amazingly helpful blog post for creating my website. I have a question regarding the image scoping, I would appreciate it if someone can shed some light. Wowchemy tutorial says the images can be placed under /assets/media/ folder starting with Wowchemy v5.1. Prior to this release, they were to be found under static folder.

My question has to do with the difference in scoping when I'm referring to an image in the yaml front matter or within the post itself. In short, YAML headers scope for images in /assets/media/ while post bodies scope for images in static/media/:

Let the image paths be: /assets/media/IMG_IN_ASSETS_MEDIA_FOLDER.jpg /static/media/IMG_IN_STATIC_MEDIA_FOLDER.jpg

On Windows 10, I am getting the following error with blogdown::new_site() function:

Hugo has been installed to "C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\Hugo\0.89.4". You are recommended to set options(blogdown.hugo.version = "0.89.4") in the .Rprofile file in your website project. See the blogdown book for more info on .Rprofile: https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/global-options.html

Error: 'system3' is not an exported object from 'namespace:xfun'

I'm wondering what am I missing here? Any hints.

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