Publish the site

wflow_publish is the main workflowr function. Use it when you are ready to publish an analysis to your site. wflow_publish performs three steps: 1) commit the file(s), 2) rebuild the R Markdown file(s), 3) commit the generated website file(s). These steps ensure that the version of the HTML file is created by the latest version of the R Markdown file, which is critical for reproducibility.

wflow_publish(files = NULL, message = NULL, all = FALSE, force = FALSE,
  update = FALSE, republish = FALSE, view = interactive(), seed = 12345,
  dry_run = FALSE, project = ".")

Arguments

files	character (default: NULL). Files to be added and committed with Git (step 1). Any R Markdown files will also be built (step 2) and their output HTML and figures will be subsequently committed (step 3). Supports file globbing.
message	character (default: NULL). A commit message.
all	logical (default: FALSE). Automatically stage files that have been modified and deleted. Equivalent to: git commit -a
force	logical (default: FALSE). Allow adding otherwise ignored files. Equivalent to: git add -f
update	logical (default: FALSE). Build any files that have been committed more recently than their corresponding HTML files (and do not have any unstaged or staged changes). This ensures that the commit version ID inserted into the HTML corresponds to the exact version of the source file that was used to produce it.
republish	logical (default: FALSE). Build all published R Markdown files. Useful for site-wide changes like updating the theme, navigation bar, or any other setting in _site.yml.
view	logical (default: interactive). View the website with wflow_view after building files. If only one file is built, it is opened. If more than one file is built, the main index page is opened. Not applicable if no files are built or if dry_run = TRUE.
seed	numeric (default: 12345). The seed to set before building each file. Passed to set.seed.
dry_run	logical (default: FALSE). Preview the proposed action but do not actually add or commit any files.
project	character (default: ".") By default the function assumes the current working directory is within the project. If this is not true, you'll need to provide the path to the project directory.

Value

Returns an object of class wflow_publish, which is a list with the following elements:

• step1: An object of class wflow_commit from the first step of committing the analysis files.

• step2: An object of class wflow_build from the second step of building the HTML files.

• step3: An object of class wflow_commit from the third step of committing the HTML files.

See also

wflow_commit, wflow_build

Examples

not_run({
  # single file
  wflow_publish("analysis/file.Rmd", "Informative commit message")
  # All tracked files that have been edited
  wflow_publish(all = TRUE, message = "Informative commit message")
  # A new file plus all tracked files that have been edited
  wflow_publish("analysis/file.Rmd", "Informative commit message", all = TRUE)
  # Multiple files
  wflow_publish(c("analysis/file.Rmd", "analysis/another.Rmd"),
                "Informative commit message")
  # All R Markdown files that start with the pattern "new_"
  wflow_publish("analysis/new_*Rmd", "Informative commit message")
  # Republish all published files regardless of whether they have been
  # modified. Useful for changing some universal aspect of the site,
  # e.g. the theme specifid in _site.yml.
  wflow_publish("analysis/_site.yml", "Informative commit message",
                republish = TRUE)

})