How to create a website for your R package with pkgdown (CC298)

The pkgdown R package makes it painless to create a website that provides documentation for your own R package that you can host for free on GitHub. In this episode, Pat shows how easy it is to build a website based on the documentation we've been writing as we've developed our package. He also shares some strategies for learning how to do new and interesting things with your own site by inspecting the code used in websites for other packages. This episode is part of an ongoing effort to develop an R package that implements the naive Bayesian classifier for classifying 16S rRNA gene sequences.

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0:00 Introduction
4:14 Building the initial pkgdown website
8:27 Hosting website with GitHub Pages
16:11 Modifying the README file
21:04 Modifying the appearance of the Reference page
26:53 Creating the NEWS file and Changelog
29:36 Committing and pushing changes to GitHub