Writing blog posts for hugo academic in RStudio

It seems like Hugo academic and RStudio should play well together, but I can't get it to work. I produced a website outside of RStudio, following the instructions to use github installation on the academic theme deployment page. The site is live (http://sjkiss.github.io) and it works fine. But I can't figure out how to write a blogpost in RStudio that hugo will then compile.

I write a blogpost in an .rmd file in RStudio.

---
title: test
author: Simon
date: '2018-03-04'
slug: test
categories: []
tags: ['Test']
output:
  md_document
---

Test
```{r}
hist(rnorm(100))
```

And when I knit to Markdown (.md file) , this is what I get. Note the absence of any TOML metadata.

Test

hist(rnorm(100))

When I compile the website from terminal after knitting to Markdown I get this:

Building sites … ERROR 2018/03/03 19:41:23 Error while rendering "home" in "": template: theme/index.html:1:3: executing "theme/index.html" at <partial "widget_page...>: error calling partial: template: theme/partials/widget_page.html:23:9: executing "theme/partials/widget_page.html" at <partial $widget $par...>: error calling partial: template: theme/partials/widgets/posts.html:61:51: executing "theme/partials/widgets/posts.html" at <len .Params.tags>: error calling len: len of untyped n

When I delete the md file that I knit, the website compiles fine.

The blog post examples seem to require TOML metadata, i.e.

+++ Metadata +++ But the blog posts in RStudio seem to use YAML metadata

`--- Metadata

Is this the problem? Do I need to redesign the website using blogdown and installing the academic theme from within RStudio? Thanks.

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Writing blog posts for hugo academic in RStudio #483

`--- Metadata