A note from the authors: Some of the information and instructions in this book are now out of date because of changes to Hugo and the blogdown package. If you have suggestions for improving this book, please file an issue in our GitHub repository. Thanks for your patience while we work to update the book, and please stay tuned for the revised version!
In the meantime, you can find an introduction to the changes and new features in the v1.0 release blog post and this "Up & running with blogdown in 2021" blog post.
— Yihui, Amber, & Alison
5.4 pkgdown
The pkgdown package (Wickham, Hesselberth, and Salmon (2022), https://github.com/hadley/pkgdown) can help you quickly turn the R documentation of an R package (including help pages and vignettes) into a website. It is independent of blogdown and solves a specific problem. It is not a general-purpose website generator. We want to mention it in this book because it is very easy to use, and also highly useful. You can find the instructions on its website or in its GitHub repository.