Consider publishing website as Distill Website

[bbest]

Hey @7yl4r,

We should consider using Distill for R Markdown: Creating a Website. Distill for R Markdown is based on the format for the machine learning online interactive journal Distill.pub. It has some sweet features:

• Distill for R Markdown: Figure Layout with full width and aside (Tufte style) options
• Distill for R Markdown: Diagrams already using r2d3

[7yl4r]

Wow, so many great links. :heart_eyes: I have bookmarked Distill.pub for my own amusement later.

So would Distill for R replace Blogdown+hugo?

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I am not advocating to recreate the wheel, but we could implement features like figure layout and diagrams as "shortcodes". Here is a very simple example comparison:

distill

```{r}
knitr::include_graphics("images/figure.png")
```

hugo

```{r}
blogdown::shortcode("imgcap", src="images/figure.png")
```

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My first impression is that Distill is more flexible with what you can do in R, but hugo is more flexible with static html, markdown, and theme-ing.

[bbest]

Hey @7yl4r,

This Rmd website seems like the most straightforward way to go for having a navbar, floating toc and tabsets:

marinebon.github.io/fk-iea_tmp

Here I'm using the darkly theme in the _site.yml (see bootswatch.com for others).