In jjallaire/distill: 'R Markdown' Format for Scientific and Technical Writing

Posts are stored within the _posts sub-directory of your site, and have a directory name that reflects the date that you created the post along with the post's title slug. For example:

_posts/2016-11-08-sharpe-ratio

Note that the date prefix is not strictly required, but is done by default as a convenience so that posts appear in chronological order within the filesystem.

If you work on a post over the course of a few days and/or if you change your post's title after you begin working on it, you may want to rename the post directory. You can use the rename_post_dir() function to update the date and/or title slug reflected in the directory name. For example:

# rename to reflect the title and date in the post YAML front-matter
rename_post_dir("_posts/2016-11-08-sharpe-ratio") 

You can also specify an explicit slug and/or date_prefix if you prefer not to use values derived from the post's YAML.

Note that you should be sure to rebuild your site after renaming a post so that it's updated URL is reflected in the index page and RSS feed.

jjallaire/distill documentation built on Nov. 23, 2023, 9:39 a.m.