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Flexdashboard Example
Flexdashboard uses R Markdown to publish data visualizations as a dashboard.
This project shows how to create and host one of your own using Github Pages.
Getting Started
Install Homebrew
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Install R and Pandoc
brew tap homebrew/science
brew install r
brew install pandoc
Start the R console and install the flexdashboard package
r
install.packages("flexdashboard")
Create a new flexdashboard R Markdown file from the R console
rmarkdown::draft("index.Rmd", template = "flex_dashboard", package = "flexdashboard")
Create _site.yml
name: "my-website"
output_dir: docs
Render the site
rmarkdown::render_site()
Note about README.md
The rmarkdown renderer will also process your README.md file into docs/README.html which will
override index.html as the default page for the URL. In order to prevent the docs/README.html
file from being commited, add it to .gitignore
echo docs/README.html >> .gitignore
Host on Githb
After you've created a new github repository (use https://github.com/new), commit and push the site.
git add -A
git commit -m "create flexdashboard site"
git remote add origin https://github.com/pbatey/flexdashboard-example.git
git push -u origin master
Then enable GitHub Pages. Set Source to master branch /docs folder in the GitHub Pages section of the repository settings.
Visit your flexdashboard on GitHub!