The blogdown package is designed to provide a customizable website output format for R Markdown. It allows users to create webpages featuring dynamic R code, automatically rendered output, and technical writing elements. The package uses Hugo, a popular open-source static website generator, to build the website content and supports other generators like Jekyll and Hexo. One useful feature of blogdown is the ability to organize website content within subdirectories, making it suitable for creating general-purpose websites related to data science, statistics, data visualization, programming, or education.
Hugo is an open-source static site generator that features fast build times, flexible themes, support for multiple content formats, multilingual websites, live reloading, and an active community. It allows developers to easily create and deploy SEO-friendly and mobile-responsive websites.