Making hugo-academic blogposts in RStudio

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1

Is there a way to make properly formatted blog posts in RStudio?

I’m using blogdown to write a blog post in RMarkdown (extension .rmd). When I knit it to markdown by following these instructions https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/markdown_document_format.html I do get a markdown file.

However, while the metadata in the .rmd file is set off with this

> ---
> author: me
> title: title
> tags:
> -R
> ---

There is no metadata in the md file that is knitted.

However, when I try to build my hugo site, the process chokes because the document is not properly formatted as a blog post.

Or do I have to write a blog post manually outside of RStudio complying with the requirements of the Hugo-academic theme? If I do that, how do I include R code chunks?

2

are you getting an error message?

The code you have there looks like typical frontmatter, only the tag is missing a space between the dash and the R.

3

Yes, when I knit it to markdown, I have no problems, but when I build it with hugo, I get this. When I delete the Markdown file that I knit, the hugo build works fine.

Building sites … ERROR 2018/03/03 07:27:50 Error while rendering "home" in "": template: theme/index.html:1:3: executing "theme/index.html" at <partial "widget_page...>: error calling partial: template: theme/partials/widget_page.html:23:9: executing "theme/partials/widget_page.html" at <partial $widget $par...>: error calling partial: template: theme/partials/widgets/posts.html:61:51: executing "theme/partials/widgets/posts.html" at <len .Params.tags>: error calling len: len of untyped nil

4

can you please share the source code? And an example content file would be good.

5

I’m using RStudio to write the blog post. That knits an Rmarkdown file to someother file.
There must be a conflict between how RStudio produes a file and how the academic theme interprets that output. Because without a markdown file produced from RStudio, the site compiles fine.

6

The markdown file you have there should be more than enough to render the site.

Why do you need to ‘knit’ ? And what exactly do you mean by it?

also, the problem is in line 23 of your widget_page.html file.

7

I’m using RStudio and it “knits” Rmarkdown files to markdown files. There must be a conflict between how the academic theme interprets material produced by RStudio.