Course Title

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This is a template for creating a quick website for a course using Slidify. Once you have configured site.yml, edited your Rmd source files, all you need to do is to run blogify(".") from the root. Slidify will automatically detect all the Rmd files, slidify them, and create all lecture slides along with the index page.

This sample course website, was actually generated the exact same way!

Structure

The first thing to understand is the folder structure. The lectures folder holds your lecture slides, one subfolder per lecture.

assets      -> put custom img/js/css/layout assets
lectures    -> folder containing lectures
  01
  02
  03
libraries   -> frameworks, highlighters and widgets
index.Rmd   -> Rmd source for home page
site.yml    -> Site related configuration

Configuration

The file site.yml contains properties that need to be customized. A property named foo in site.yml can be accessed in any of the layout files as site.foo.

Navigation

It is easy to automatically add a list of lectures by adding the following code chunk to your index.Rmd. It assumes that you are using the same folder structure and naming scheme. If you use a different scheme, make sure that you tweak the code in this code chunk.

```{r echo = F, results = 'asis'}
lectures = dir('lectures', full = TRUE)
links = paste0(seq_along(lectures), ". ", 
  "[Lecture ", basename(lectures), "]", "(", lectures, "/index.html)"
)
writeLines(links)
```

This is the output from running the above code chunk.

1. Lecture 01
2. Lecture 02
3. Lecture 03

Features

One nice feature you will notice is that all lecture slides automatically get an edit button, that when clicked opens up the Rmd source in prose.io. This makes it easy for people to correct typos, and contribute to your lecture slides.