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pkgdown

pkgdown is designed to make it quick and easy to build a website for your package. You can see pkgdown in action at https://pkgdown.r-lib.org: this is the output of pkgdown applied to the latest version of pkgdown. Learn more in vignette("pkgdown") or ?build_site.

Installation

# Install released version from CRAN
install.packages("pkgdown")

# Install development version from GitHub
# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("r-lib/pkgdown")

Usage

Get started with usethis:

# Run once to configure your package to use pkgdown
usethis::use_pkgdown()

Then use pkgdown to build your website:

pkgdown::build_site()

This generates a docs/ directory containing a website. Your README.md becomes the homepage, documentation in man/ generates a function reference, and vignettes will be rendered into articles/. Read vignette("pkgdown") for more details, and to learn how to deploy your site to GitHub pages.

pkgdown 2.0.0 and Bootstrap 5

pkgdown 2.0.0 includes an upgrade from Bootstrap 3 to Bootstrap 5, which is accompanied by a whole bunch of minor UI improvements. If you’ve heavily customised your site, there’s a small chance that this will break your site, so everyone needs to explicitly opt-in to the upgrade by adding the following to _pkgdown.yml:

template:
  bootstrap: 5

Then learn about the many new ways to customise your site in vignette("customise").

In the wild

At last count, pkgdown is used by over 11,000 packages. Here are a few examples created by contributors to pkgdown:

• bayesplot (source): plotting functions for posterior analysis, model checking, and MCMC diagnostics.

• valr (source): read and manipulate genome intervals and signals.

• mkin (source): calculation routines based on the FOCUS Kinetics Report

• NMF (source): a framework to perform non-negative matrix factorization (NMF).

Comparing the source and output of these sites is a great way to learn new pkgdown techniques.

Code of conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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