We want to use distill for meeting notes and internal reports and use "blog" variant of distillfor this. All the posts are in the _posts directory of the same github repo.
edit : a link that collaborators can click to edit the Rmd source document of the current page; this was designed primarily for GitHub repositories, since it is easy to edit arbitrary plain-text files on GitHub even in other people’s repositories (if you do not have write access to the repository, GitHub will automatically fork it and let you submit a pull request after you finish editing the file). This link should have %s in it, which will be substituted by the actual Rmd filename for each page.
In other words; we would like each blogpost to have a "edit" button which forwards the user to the edit mode of the appropriate Rmd file (https://github.com/user/repo/edit/branch/path/to/rmd-file.Rmd).
Where would I need to start to implement this myself (if it does not already exist)
I think it would be exactly what you're describing, e.g. for the main Distill for R Markdown page, the button (which, in some cases/on some sites looks like a GitHub icon) would go to its source page
So, assuming you're using the _posts workflow from the article below, it would be the relative path from that R Markdown directory
However, I don't quite understand which button you are talking about... the one on the top right (see screenshot below)? This one leads me to https://github.com/rstudio/distill.. and I can't seem to find a different button
Yeah, basically. I haven't seen any examples of it in distill blogs, but I obviously haven't done an exhaustive search. You could certainly file a feature request.
