<commit_before>---
layout: post
title: "How to set up your own R blog with Github pages and Jekyll Boostrap"
date: 2016-12-04
categories: blogging
tags: blogging github jekyll bootstrap
---

### This post is in reply to a request: How did I set up this R blog?

I have wanted to have my own R blog for a while before I actually went ahead and realised this page. I had seen all the cool things people do with R by following [R-bloggers](https://www.r-bloggers.com/) and reading their newsletter every day!

While I am using R every day at work, the thematic scope there is of course very bioinformatics-centric (with a little bit of Machine Learning and lots of visualization and statistics), I wanted to have an incentive to regularly explore other types of analyses and other types of data that I don't normally work with. I have also very often benefited from other people's published code in that it gave me ideas for my own work and I hope that sharing my own analyses will inspire others as much as I often am by what can be be done with data.

Moreover, since I've started my R blog, I've very much enjoyed interacting more with other R-bloggers and R users and getting valuable feedback. I definitely feel more part of the community now that I'm an active contributor!

<br><commit_msg>Added how to set up an r blog<commit_after>---
layout: post
title: "How to set up your own R blog with Github pages and Jekyll Bootstrap"
date: 2016-12-04
categories: blogging
tags: blogging github jekyll bootstrap
---

### This post is in reply to a request: How did I set up this R blog?

I have wanted to have my own R blog for a while before I actually went ahead and realised this page. I had seen all the cool things people do with R by following [R-bloggers](https://www.r-bloggers.com/) and reading their newsletter every day!

While I am using R every day at work, the thematic scope there is of course very bioinformatics-centric (with a little bit of Machine Learning and lots of visualization and statistics), I wanted to have an incentive to regularly explore other types of analyses and other types of data that I don't normally work with. I have also very often benefited from other people's published code in that it gave me ideas for my own work and I hope that sharing my own analyses will inspire others as much as I often am by what can be be done with data.

Moreover, since I've started my R blog, I've very much enjoyed interacting more with other R-bloggers and R users and getting valuable feedback. I definitely feel more part of the community now that I'm an active contributor!

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