# pkgdown [](https://travis-ci.org/r-lib/pkgdown) [](https://www.tidyverse.org/lifecycle/#maturing) [](https://cran.r-project.org/package=pkgdown) [](https://codecov.io/github/r-lib/pkgdown?branch=master) pkgdown is designed to make it quick and easy to build a website for your package. You can see pkgdown in action at : this is the output of pkgdown applied to the latest version of pkgdown. Learn more in `vignette("pkgdown")` or `?build_site`. ## Installation ``` r # Install release version from CRAN install.packages("pkgdown") # Install development version from GitHub devtools::install_github("r-lib/pkgdown") ``` ## Usage Run pkgdown from the package directory each time you release your package: ``` r pkgdown::build_site() ``` This will generate a `docs/` directory. The home page will be generated from your package’s `README.md`, and a function reference will be generated from the documentation in the `man/` directory. If you are using GitHub, the easiest way to make this your package website is to check into git, then go settings for your repo and make sure that the **GitHub pages** source is set to “master branch /docs folder”. The package also includes an RStudio add-in which you can bind to a keyboard shortcut. I recommend `Cmd + Shift + W`: it uses Cmd + Shift, like all other package development worksheets, it replaces a rarely used command (close all tabs), and the W is mnemonic for website. To customise your site, create `_pkgdown.yml` and modify it as described in the documentation. Alternatively, you can also use `pkgdown/_pkgdown.yml` if you need other files to customise your site. ## In the wild As at last count, pkgdown is used [by over 1800 packages](https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=pkgdown.css+in%3Apath+path%3Adocs&s=indexed&type=Code). Here are a few examples created by people contributors to pkgdown: - [bayesplot](http://mc-stan.org/bayesplot/index.html) \[[source](https://github.com/stan-dev/bayesplot/tree/gh-pages)\]: plotting functions for posterior analysis, model checking, and MCMC diagnostics. - [valr](https://rnabioco.github.io/valr/) \[[source](https://github.com/rnabioco/valr)\]: read and manipulate genome intervals and signals. - [mkin](http://jranke.github.io/mkin/) \[[source](https://github.com/jranke/mkin)\]: calculation routines based on the FOCUS Kinetics Report - [NMF](http://renozao.github.io/NMF/master/index.html) \[[source](https://github.com/renozao/NMF)\]: a framework to perform non-negative matrix factorization (NMF). Comparing the output with the source is a great way to learn new pkgdown techniques (particularly because ironically, the pkgdown documentation isn’t very good yet) ## Code of conduct Please note that this project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.