The initial goal is to make a web view (available here) of the PDF/Excel release here.
We get from input Excel file (in future, an R data frame) to hosted web page in three basic steps:
- Data are processed and plots and tables are specified with the R language, embedded as code chunks in a file which also contains marked-up text for headers etc.. This file is in Rmd format.
- The R package
knitr
renders both the marked-up text and the result of executing the code chunks to a single html file. - When the html file is pushed to the
gh-pages
branch, GitHub automatically hosts it for us on github.io).