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distill

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

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 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.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Posit Software, PBC4
First release
20197

Rendering and deploy

Install with
install.packages from CRAN1

Releases

Current major version
15
Last release
2023-10-065

Adoption

GitHub stars
4262
Contributors
226

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Sources

  1. 2026-10-23: links, Categories, Install with
    rstudio.github.io/distill/
  2. 2026-10-23: links, License, GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/rstudio/distill
  3. 2026-10-23: links
    github.com/rstudio/distill/blob/main/README.md
  4. 2026-10-23: Written in, Runtime, Maintainer
    github.com/rstudio/distill/blob/main/DESCRIPTION
  5. 2026-10-23: Current major version, Last release
    api.github.com/repos/rstudio/distill/releases/latest
  6. 2026-10-23: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/rstudio/distill/contributors
  7. 2026-10-23: First release
    cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/distill/

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