tidyverse.org

This repo is the source of https://tidyverse.org, and this readme tells you how it all works.

• If you spot any small problems with the website, please feel empowered to fix them directly with a PR.

• If you see any larger problems, an issue is probably better: that way we can discuss the problem before you commit any time to it.

• If you'd like to contribute a blog post, please chat with one of us first. Then read the contributing guide.

This repo (and resulting website) is licensed as CC BY-SA.

Structure

The source of the website is a collection of .md and .Rmd files stored in content/, which are rendered for the site with blogdown.

• content/*.md: these files generate the top-level pages on the site: packages, learn, help, and contribute.

• content/articles/: these files are the tidyverse blog. New blog entries should be given name year-month-slug.md. Unfortunately this data isn't actually used when generating the output file: you'll need to set up the yaml metadata. More on that below.

  • For *.md posts, no *.html file should be committed. If you generate one locally during development, delete it once it's no longer useful to you. Keep it out of this repo.

  • For *.Rmd posts, an *.html file should be committed. It will be generated when you run blogdown::serve_site() (see recommended workflow below).

  • If your post includes emoji, use the .Rmd format, and incorporate emoji using the emo package.

• data/events.yaml: this yaml file contains information about upcoming events. The site automatically filters out events that have happened, sorts by date, and then shows at most two events.

Previewing changes

Use blogdown::serve_site()

To build the site locally, you'll need to install blogdown, and then install hugo, the music behind the magic of blogdown:

install.packages("blogdown")
blogdown::install_hugo()

Then run

blogdown::serve_site()

This will open a preview of the site in your web browser, and it will automatically update whenever you modify one of the input files. For .Rmd, this will generate an .html file, which you should commit and push to GitHub.

Other methods of local preview

You should really preview the site using blogdown::serve_site(). But if, accidentally or intentionally, you knit or preview the content using another method (e.g. click the Preview button in RStudio for .[R]md), make sure you don't commit an .html file from an .md file.

In PRs

The tidyverse site is automatically published with netlify. One big advantage of netlify is that every PR automatically gets a live preview. Once the PR is merged, that preview becomes the live site.