Reprodown

Reproducible Projects with R Markdown and Hugo. This packages is tested only on Linux OS.

About

Reprodown is an R package that helps to improve reproducibility by using:

• Blogdown: An R package that integrates rmarkdown with Hugo to create a website.
• GNU make: A GNU utility that determines which pieces of a program need to be compiled. This is based on a file called Makefile where dependencies are defined.
• scholar-docs: A custom hugo theme for a webpage.

The workflow of reprodown is to write the .Rmd files containing our data analysis inside a sub-folder (e.g. scripts). Then the function reprodown::makefile will read the .Rmd files to create automatically the Makefile. The outputs are render to html files by simply running the utility make on the terminal.

Install

We need to install the R packages blogdown and reprodown. We need my custom fork of blogdown given that I made a pull request to add a functionality to the function blogdown:::build_rmds. Hopefully, this will accepted in the future.

remotes::install_github("ErickChacon/blogdown")
remotes::install_github("ErickChacon/reprodown")

In addition, we also need the GNU make utility which comes with any GNU/Linux distribution.

Quick start-up

# create folders for project
reprodown::create_proj()
# add theme for the website
blogdown::new_site('docs', theme = 'ErickChacon/scholar-docs', sample = FALSE)
# convert the rmd files to html files
reprodown::makefile(); system(make)
# serve the site
setwd("docs"); blogdown::serve_site(); setwd("..")
# stop serve
servr::daemon_stop()

Look further details at erickchacon.gitlab.io