{
  "title": "Listening to @xieyihui in his @rstudio webinar on blogdown: \"If you've never built a website, you are lucky; you will get started fast.\"",
  "date": "2017-05-24"
}

# blogdown

> **Julia Silge** (@juliasilge; 18/2): Listening to @xieyihui in his @rstudio webinar on blogdown: "If you've never built a website, you are lucky; you will get started fast."  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867396946431950849)

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> **Julia Silge** (@juliasilge; 12/1): @xieyihui @rstudio "If you have built websites before, it will take you several days to get going with blogdown." 😂😭😂😭😂 #rstats  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867397276800393217)

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> **Myfanwy** (@Voovarb; 5/1): "Sometimes I feel like I'm just an RMarkdown virus." - @xieyihui on new blogdown pkg #rstats  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867400371664150528)

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> **Joyce Robbins** (@jtrnyc; 5/0): .@xieyihui: "Sometimes I feel I'm like an #RMarkdown virus" injecting it into whatever good tools I find @rstudio… https://t.co/wt3qnSINeA  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867400498428735489)

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> **alex hayes** (@alexpghayes; 3/1): #rstats #blogdown bloggers: make sure in config.toml
>
baseurl = '.../ends_with_a_slash/'
>
otherwise site styling can break!  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867469665542393856)

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> **Sharon Machlis** (@sharon000; 2/1): Love this slide from @xieyihui 's Blogdown webinar. Do you know basic website tech? You do if you get these T-shirt… https://t.co/zeCkZsoMYa  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867396800998780929)

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> **Joyce Robbins** (@jtrnyc; 2/0): Advice for #rstats ppl: for the easiest, simplest, no-nonsense approach to anything, do it the way @xieyihui suggests @rstudio #blogdown  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867401133291077633)

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> **Brian Rusk** (@BrianViRu; 1/0): @xieyihui Thanks for the Webinar on Blogdown this morning. It looks very useful and I'll definitely be looking into it more.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867439798956445696)

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> **Jon Borrelli** (@JJ_Borrelli; 1/0): just caught aa @rstudio webinar by @xieyihui on blogdown and now i am jazzed to upgrade my website. awesome new tool!  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867419763575848962)

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> **Transport Foundry** (@transprtfoundry; 1/0): The best kind of virus! "Sometimes I feel I'm just like an R Markdown virus" @xieyihui @rstudio #blogdown  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867400531123351553)

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> **Sharon Machlis** (@sharon000; 1/0): Next RStudio webinar after today's Blogdown session: June 7 11 am EDT Creating &amp; Pre-Processing a Design Matrix w Recipes - Max Kuhn #rstats  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867395961869529088)

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> **Robin Donatello** (@norcalbiostat; 0/0): On a @rstudio  webinar with @xieyihui on #blogdown using #rmarkdown - he has the *best* example of a pie chart i've… https://t.co/0FYZM2lbIj  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867403497322328064)

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> **Jean Adams** (@JeanVAdams; 0/0): @rstudio I tried registering for the blogdown webinar (which should have just started) w/ 2 different e-mails.  Never heard back.  :(  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867396174260695042)

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# bookdown

> **Keep It Surly** (@surlyurbanist; 0/0): @paulonabike I'm thinking writing in markdown and potentially using bookdown to handle the organization of the whol… https://t.co/h0ZY3CDtVM  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867169853324513280)

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# knitr

> **Gavin Simpson** (@ucfagls; 2/0): Also, think carefully about using syntax highlighting &amp; the scheme you use; #knitr default doesn't print well in BW… https://t.co/pCM9Mas4CQ  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867455372843405312)

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> **Gavin Simpson** (@ucfagls; 2/0): Tip from a reader; if you are writing a book intended for print &amp; use #knitr, turn off the background on code blocks; it looks shit. #rstats  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867450581589254144)

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> **Kristen Sauby** (@KristenSauby; 0/0): @JeffRouder @richarddmorey @EJWagenmakers I've been using Rmd, which converts pretty well to Word. I still have to… https://t.co/Vw4sw6DIvp  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867494633068273664)

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> **Jeff Rouder** (@JeffRouder; 0/0): U use LaTeX/knitr.  Journal wont take pdf or tex.  Conversion software stinks.  Your thoughts?  @richarddmorey @EJWagenmakers  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867489642639011844)

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> **Andrew Heiss** (@andrewheiss; 0/0): @dantonnoriega Same thing happens in knitr  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867198713290215424)

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> **Danton Noriega** (@dantonnoriega; 0/0): @andrewheiss Dang. I possibly had an idea if you were using knitr but not sure when it's just straight pandoc.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867194644727255040)

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# yihui.name

> **Yihui Xie** (@xieyihui; 1/0): @norcalbiostat @rstudio My three favorite pie charts: https://t.co/xBdZkDKFJF I had to show one that I could easily redraw in R :)  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867418698319097856)

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> **thinkR** (@thinkR_fr; 0/0): "When in Doubt, Upgrade", a friendly advice by @xieyihui 🙂 : https://t.co/Y9N4eR1YkI  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/867319425153851392)

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