# distill

R package that provides the Distill format for R Markdown, for articles, blogs and websites built from R Markdown sources.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/distill/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- home: https://rstudio.github.io/distill/
- repository: https://github.com/rstudio/distill
- docs: https://rstudio.github.io/distill/
- forum: https://community.rstudio.com/tag/distill

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Posit Software, PBC
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2019
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: cms
- hosting: r
- language: r
- runtime: r
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: install.packages from CRAN

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2023-10-06

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 426
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 22
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://rstudio.github.io/distill/ (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/distill (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://github.com/rstudio/distill/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://github.com/rstudio/distill/blob/main/DESCRIPTION (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://github.com/rstudio/distill/blob/main/DESCRIPTION (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://rstudio.github.io/distill/ (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://rstudio.github.io/distill/ (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/distill (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/distill/releases/latest (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/distill/releases/latest (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/distill (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/distill/contributors (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://github.com/rstudio/distill/blob/main/DESCRIPTION (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/distill/ (read 2026-10-23)

## Notes

distill is an R package that provides the Distill format for R Markdown, a web publishing format for scientific and technical articles. It combines the authoring features of the Distill web framework with R Markdown, and articles can be gathered into a Distill website or blog. The package is installed from CRAN.

A website is built with `rmarkdown::render_site()` and written to the `_site` directory by default. The [publishing guide](https://rstudio.github.io/distill/publish_website.html) describes copying that output to a web server or hosting service such as GitHub Pages, Netlify or Amazon S3. Posit Software, PBC is named as copyright holder and funder in the package's authors list.

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