altdoc is a simple and powerful package to create documentation
websites for R packages. altdoc makes it trivial to create beautiful
websites for simple R packages, and it can efficiently organize
documentation for complex projects with hundreds of functions or dozens
vignettes. Its features include:
- Support for several documentation frameworks:
- Render:
- Quarto and Rmarkdown vignettes.
- Reference pages for exported functions, along with evaluated examples.
- Common sections:
README.md,NEWS.md,CHANGELOG.md,CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md,CITATION.md, etc.
- Preview the site:
- Browser
- RStudio Viewer
- Deploy the website:
- Github pages
- Other platforms
Installation
You can install the CRAN version:
install.packages("altdoc")You can also install the development version to benefit from the latest bug fixes:
remotes::install_github("etiennebacher/altdoc")Quick start
A typical workflow with altdoc is to execute these commands from the
root directory of the package:
### Create the website structure for one of the documentation generators
setup_docs(tool = "docsify")
# setup_docs(tool = "docute")
# setup_docs(tool = "mkdocs")
# setup_docs(tool = "quarto_website")
### Render the vignettes and man pages
render_docs()
### Preview the website
preview_docs()See the Get Started vignette for more details.
Demos
The websites in this table were created using Altdoc: