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distill (version 1.6)

import_post: Import a post into a blog

Description

Import a distill post from an external source (e.g. GitHub repo, RPubs article, etc.). Importable posts must have distill::distill_article as the output format in the YAML.

Usage

import_post(
  url,
  slug = "auto",
  date = Sys.Date(),
  date_prefix = date,
  check_license = TRUE,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  view = interactive()
)
update_post(slug, view = interactive())

Value

Returns (invisibly) a logical indicating whether the operation completed (it may not complete if, for example, the user chose not to import an article that lacked a creative commons license).

Arguments

url

URL for distill post to import

slug

Post slug (directory name). Automatically computed from title if not provided.

date

Post date (defaults to current date)

date_prefix

Date prefix for post slug (preserves chronological order for posts within the filesystem). Pass NULL for no date prefix.

check_license

Verify that the imported posted has a creative commons license

overwrite

Overwrite existing post? (defaults to FALSE, use update_post() to update an existing post in-place).

view

View the post after importing it.