Clone or open the blog repository from github

Using R-studio

In R-studio open the terminal tab or press shift-alt-t.

Navigate to the directory where you wish to save the repo using cd and mkdir.

Inside this directory run the command:
git clone https://github.com/Eighty20/StatsLab_Blogdown.git

Using GitBash in windows

Create a folder to work in.

Open GitBash in this folder (try using right-click).

Run the command:
git clone https://github.com/Eighty20/StatsLab_Blogdown.git

Create a post using “Addins” dropdown

Open the R project file inside the repository

Click on the Addins - New Post button

• Name it
  
• Change output folder to “posts”
  
• Change category to R
  
• Add some tags
  
• Change ouput format to .Rmd

Change/check your date format

The website expects your date to be formatted as a number not text and it wants yyyy-mm-dd

Write a kickass post

How to add data

Save all your data inside of website/static/data/. Create a folder for your data so we don’t polute this folder too quickly.

Since you are inside website/content/posts/ you need to reference your data accordingly:
data.table::fread("../../static/data/your-folder/your-dataset")

Compile your new work using Blogdown

Now that you have finished your epic post you need to knit the post. You don’t need to click the Knit button; just run the following command in Console:
blogdown::serve_site()

You should see a preview of your work in the Viewer pane:

This is interactive and will update if you continue editing the page

Push your post to the website

Now that the site has been previewed and your post looks OK you can push the changes to the github repo that the site is monitoring:

Go to your terminal and make sure you are in the root folder of the website.

• Get the remote nodes
  git fetch
  
• Check that you are up to date
  git status
  
• If you are behind you should first pull
  git pull
  
• Stage/add your work to the website
  git add .
  
• Save your work
  git commit -m "this is my save of this work where I did this post"
  
• Update the site
  git push

The website will check in on the repository every now and then, wait 15 min and refresh the page