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Another Note on A blogdown Tutorial

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I just discovered an awesome tutorial on blogdown written by Alison. I have to admit this is the best blogdown tutorial I have seen so far.

A Quick Note on Two Beautiful Websites

Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

To me, the two most impressive websites based on blogdown are:

Rob J Hyndman’s personal website.
Live Free or Dichotomize by Lucy and Nick et al.

I’m sure there will be more.

A Plain Markdown Post

Sun, 14 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This sample post is mainly for blogdown users. If you do not use blogdown, you can skip the first section.

1. Markdown or R Markdown

This is a post written in plain Markdown (*.md) instead of R Markdown (*.Rmd). The major differences are:

You cannot run any R code in a plain Markdown document, whereas in an R Markdown document, you can embed R code chunks (```{r});
A plain Markdown post is rendered through Goldmark by default, and an R Markdown document is compiled by rmarkdown and Pandoc.

There are differences in syntax between Goldmark’s Markdown and Pandoc’s Markdown. For example, Goldmark does not support LaTeX math and Pandoc does. I have added the KaTeX support to this theme (i.e., hugo-xmin)

Lorem Ipsum

Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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About Hugo XMin

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

XMin is the first Hugo theme I have designed. The original reason that I wrote it was I needed a minimal example of Hugo themes when I was writing the blogdown book. Basically I wanted a simple theme that supports a navigation menu, a home page, other single pages, lists of pages, blog posts, categories, tags, and RSS. That is all. Nothing fancy. In terms of CSS and JavaScript, I really want to keep them minimal. In fact, this theme does not contain any JavaScript code at all, although on this example website I did introduce some JavaScript code (still relatively simple anyway). The theme does not contain any images, either, and is pretty much a plain-text theme.