Daily Archives: March 31, 2015

In some cases it may be useful to write a WordPress post in R Markdown and afterwards publish it to my blog. This can be done using the RWordPress package. First we setup a link to my blog: if (!require(‘RWordPress’)) install.packages(‘RWordPress’, repos = ‘http://www.omegahat.org/R’, type = ‘source’) library(RWordPress) options(WordPressLogin = c(<your username> = ‘<your password>’), WordPressURL = ‘https://www.research.relund.dk/wp/xmlrpc.php’) Next the post is written in a Rmd file and afterwards published to WordPress: id<-knit2wp(‘RWordPress_post.Rmd’, title = ‘Publishing R markdown to WordPress’, categories = c(‘R’), publish=F ) Now the post with id is a draft on my blog and I can have a look at it before publishing it. If I want to update the post I do: knit2wp(‘RWordPress_post.Rmd’, title = ‘Publishing R markdown to WordPress’, postid=id, action=’editPost’, categories = c(‘R’), publish = F ) To highlight the above code I use the WP Code Highlight.js plugin. If you use other syntax highlight […]