I used to mention creating a purely R-based static website generator named Haiku with my then classmate Arjun about two years ago. I remember that he said the name was nice.

Time flies, and apparently, I did not have the chance to build it. Fortunately, Yihui saved the world again, and now blogdown has become the most elegant and powerful static website generator for R users, especially if you love R Markdown.

Without a hesitation, I decided to revive my blog and build a minimalist theme for it. Based on David’s awesome Black & Light theme, I made some of my own improvements and built this Hugo theme named Tanka for blogdown and Hugo users.

Figure: A screenshot of the Hugo Tanka theme.

It is straightforward to create your blogdown website and try out the Tanka theme in RStudio. Simply click File → New Project → New Directory → Website using blogdown, then fill the “Hugo theme” field with nanxstats/hugo-tanka.

Figure: Creating a blogdown site with the Hugo Tanka theme in RStudio.

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions for this theme. Enjoy!