It is very easy to create a nice responsive website using rmarkdown in the Preview version of RStudio.

This minimal guide will get you from opening RStudio to publishing a website in the shortest possible time….well possibly a bit longer. If you are reading this online follow the order of the menu to create a website like this one that you can publish. Take a fork then clone the repository for this site from https://github.com/poldham/simple_website.

This is not the best simple rmarkdown website in the world, it’s just a tribute. To learn more make sure you read the simple RStudio walkthrough that this site is based on. Learn to do a lot more by reading the RStudio guide to websites and a lot lot more by reading about rmarkdown.

The rmarkdown and the new bookdown packages were written by Yihui Xie at RStudio and collaborators.