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.
# Install released version from CRAN
install.packages("pkgdown")# Install development version from GitHub
# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("r-lib/pkgdown")Get started with usethis:
# Run once to configure your package to use and deploy pkgdown
usethis::use_pkgdown_github_pages()# Preview your site locally before publishing
pkgdown::build_site()This adds the necessary components and sets up GitHub Actions1 for
automatic site building when deploying. Your README.md becomes the
homepage, documentation in man/ generates a function reference, and
vignettes will be rendered into articles/.
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: 5Then learn about the many new ways to customise your site in
vignette("customise").
At last count, pkgdown is used by over 12,000 packages. Here are a few examples:
-
bayesplot (source): plotting functions for posterior analysis, model checking, and MCMC diagnostics.
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valr (source): read and manipulate genome intervals and signals.
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mkin (source): calculation routines based on the FOCUS Kinetics Report
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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.
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.
Footnotes
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If you don’t use GitHub, you can use
usethis::use_pkgdown()+pkgdown::build_site()to create a website. ↩