Flexdashboard within distill framework

[Manolo]

Dear list members,

Is it possible to use flexdashboard within the distill framework?

Manuel

[tom_rstudio]

Howdy @Manolo!

Good question.

You can't use flexdashboard inside distill natively, but you can "link" to other content from distill.

For example, I have some slide decks hosted on distill by creating and adding arbitrary other content in a "static" folder.

For example Slide Deck which is located at:

.../static/slidesand you can see the content on my GitHub.

In this example you can add knitted flexdashboard and link to it from the blog.

[Manolo]

Thank you very much Tom.

For some reason, I didn't see your reply.

How do you specify this in the yaml?

Does the folder need to be named static?

[tom_rstudio]

Hi @Manolo , you can create a folder named "static" in your project directory and then store "other" non-distill .Rmds in there such as flexdashboard.

Note that you can really name that folder whatever you want, or include it at the parent-directory level.

Distill for R Markdown: Creating a Website

While you’ll typically use the distill::distill_article format for pages within a distill website, you can also use any other HTML-based, single document R Markdown formats so long as it’s underlying template has support for pandoc includes.

Support for alternate output formats requires up-to-date versions of both the distill and rmarkdown packages:

• version >= 1.2 of distill
• version >= 2.7 of rmarkdown

Alternate output formats are supported only for top-level site pages (not for articles within collections, e.g. blog posts). Pages using an alternate format should be rendered via the rmarkdown::render_site() function to ensure they get site-related headers and footers (this happens automatically when you Knit from within an RStudio website project).

[Manolo]

Thank you very much Tom.

I understand now.

Manolo