Questions tagged [r-distill]

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adjust figure size/placement in a distill document

I'm trying to put a small image into a distill document as part of a distill-based web site but having trouble with the placement (because I have a terrible mental model of what distill is doing and am not a CSS wizard). I would like the picture to…
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Rmarkdown image gallery

Anyone know of any image gallery packages for Rmarkdown or a good way to create a gallery? I have just started to experiment with some vanilla code, but there is a long way to go. Just wanted to check with the community if I am missing some known or…
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GitHub: How to get `utteranc.es` to work for website discussion

My website https://friendly.github.io/HistDataVis/ wants to use the seemingly light weight and useful discussion feature offered by the https://github.com/utterance app. I believe I have installed it correctly in my repo,…
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Is assignInNamespace() the correct solution for errors rendering distill with data.table?

Using the distill package and Rmarkdown for writing a blog, when rendering the .Rmd file I get errors when code chunks include data.table := and ., but not functions such as data.table(). The errors occur when the YAML header states draft: false…
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How to add code folding to paged_table and kable outputs in distill article in R

Thanks to Martin Schmelzer we have a wonderful solution to hide/show outputs from code chunks in R markdown HTML documents. It also works well with distill articles made from the distill package in R. I was hoping if it could be extended to…
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Error message when trying to build website using distill: invalid version specification

I have a distill website. When I try to hit "Build Website" using RStudio I get this error message: Error: invalid version specification '2021.09.0+351' Execution halted Exited with status 1.
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Cannot render distill article in a targets pipeline

I'm new to targets ecosystem. I could not create a distill article from my targets pipeline although it works when I set the output to html_document in yaml. I have tried googling but couldn't find anything useful. Any help would be appreciated. My…
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Add a submenu to a distill rmarkdown website?

I am creating a distill website using rmarkdown and would like to add a submenu in the navigation bar. I found this feature request/issue on GitHub but have not been able to find a solution. With the below _site.yml and index.Rmd the submenu text…
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Quarto equivalent to "exclude:" YAML command in distill

In R, I am moving a distill website to quarto website. In distill, I can prevent all the Rmd documents in a directory called "internal" from being knitted by adding this to the _site.yml exclude: - internal The same trick does not work in quarto.…
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How to change the colours for the list of TOC contents in a Distill article in R, using the CSS file

I'm still very new to this so I'm not sure if it's a R issue or a css issue. I'm trying to change the colour of the elements listed in my table of contents in a distill article. Specifically it is these elements I'm trying to change: What would…
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Remove space between top of photo and navbar on distill website postcards

I have built a website -- j-dunning.net -- using distill for R Markdown. Although I can tweak the CSS code for the website generally, how can I tweak the postcard landing page in isolation? I would specifically like to remove of the space between…
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Theorem environment not rendering or cross-referencing in distill

I'm trying to write a distill::distill_article blogpost which requires the use of LaTeX math environments e.g. theorem, lemma, proof etc. I have tried to follow these instructions and also these instructions but am unable to render the theorem…
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Why does my table of contents specifications not work properly? From Distill for R Markdown

Thank you for your help! I am having troubles with getting the table of contents (toc) into my Rmarkdown I have set up the document with the following YAML.. and according to https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/html-document.html and…
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How to move catrgory labels under time labels in a distill blog

The distill package in r allows to add categories/labels for posts and they will show in the post listing page. But their default position is under the title of each post, shown as below: default position But I want to move these category labels…
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Creating a user/password login for Distill and/or Quarto website in R

I am currently creating a distill website through R (hopefully to transition to Quarto, but still using distill). Currently, the R code is connected with GitHub to publish the website, and this will mainly be for internal use within my department.…
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