blogdown Description
This book introduces blogdown, an R package that teaches you how to create websites with Hugo and R Markdown. You may be familiar with creating websites and wonder what the benefits of R Markdown are. It creates a static website. This means that the website is only made up of static files like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and images. The website can be hosted on any web server (see Chapter 3). The website does not require server side scripts like PHP or databases such as WordPress. It only contains one folder of static files. The website is created from R Markdown documents (R can be used without R code chunks). This has a lot of benefits, especially if you are using R programming or data analysis.