Pkgdown

Building a website with `pkgdown`: a short guide

As promised in my last post, here is a short guide with some tips and tricks for building a documentation website for an R package using pkgdown. In the end, this guide ended up way longer than I was expecting, but I hope you’ll find it useful, although it often replicates information already available in pkgdown documentation ! Prerequisites To build a website using pkgdown, all you need to have is an R package hosted on Git Hub, with a file structure “tweaked” with some functionality provided by devtools.

The new MODIStsp website (based on pkgdown) is online !

The MODIStsp website, which lay abandoned since several months on github pages, recently underwent a major overhaul thanks to pkgdown. The new site is now available at http://ropensci.github.io/MODIStsp/ We hope that the revised website will allow to navigate MODIStsp-related material much more easily than either github or the standard CRAN documentation, and will therefore help users in better and more easily exploiting MODIStsp functionality. The restyling was possible thanks to the very nice “pkgdown” R package (http://hadley.