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Distill for R Markdown
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Documentation for migrating from blogdown to distill #344

Open jimmyday12 opened 3 years ago

jimmyday12 commented 3 years ago

Hi - I hope this appropriate to ask in here. I asked a question over on the community page but didn't get any responses.

https://community.rstudio.com/t/migrating-posts-from-blogdown-to-distill/96334

Is there a guide for how to best migrate from Blogdown to Distill? My blogdown site is struggling with Hugo/theme version issues and I'm fairly keen to try move to Distill to simplify things. I've managed to get a new Distill site setup locally and can get most things working based on the great documentation.

What I'm struggling with is moving my old posts over from Blogdown to Distill.

I have quite a lot of them in my Blogdown site. They all live in the content/posts/ folder. There is usually an .Rmd file and a matching .html file in that folder (some older posts are just .md from when I migrated from wordpress to blogdown).

Is there a way to get all of those old posts to work in Distill without having to update the YAML and re-render them? Most of the posts are pretty old and broken so re-rendering won't work but I'd still like to keep them for posterity if possible.

An example post is here.

I've tried simply copying and pasting the files (both Rmd and html) over to the _posts/ folder and then using rmarkdown::render_site to preview things but none of the posts appear on the home page. New posts I add with distill::create_post do appear on the home page.

I also tried using distill::import_post but kept getting errors. Specifically, I tried the below and received this error.

distill::import_post("https://plussixoneblog.com/post/my-elo-rating-system-explained/")
Importing https://plussixoneblog.com/post/my-elo-rating-system-explained/...
This article does not have a creative commons license. Import anyway? [Y/n]: Y
Error in if (dir_exists(article_dir) && !overwrite) { : 
  missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

Any advice would be appreciated and let me know if this is not the best place to ask.

Thanks

sms1962 commented 3 years ago

I've the same experience, and also interesting how to easily migrate from blowdown to distill.