info

just a tiny R package with one function knit_xwp() which converts the content of an .md/.Rmd file first to .md and then to .html in order to publish it to a wordpress blog.
the function relies on the RWordpress package https://github.com/duncantl/RWordpress which is outdated but still works fine with the wordpress API under (tested) wordpress 6.4.2.

preliminary

you have to have RWordPress installed. You can do this with:

devtools::install_github(c("duncantl/XMLRPC", "duncantl/RWordPress"))

if you dont have devtools installed, do that first by:

install.packages("devtools")

and then install this (the knitXwp-package) with the same routine as:

devtools::install_github(c("esteeschwarz/knitXwp"))

usage

to post an R-Markdown document, you go like this:

# load libraries (after you have installed)
library(knitXwp)

# define username, password and blogadress:
setblog(username,password,adress='https://example.com')


# define postID
postid<-0 # you have to set the id unless you want to create a new post

# define .Rmd filename. its good to have the working directory
# be be the one where this file is stored
file<-"yourfile.Rmd"

# call the function
# if you want to create a new post, leave postid out
# adapt categories and keywords
knit_xwp(file,action = "editPost",categories = c("cat1","cat2"),
          mt_keywords=c("tag1","tag2"),
          publish = T,
          postid = postid)

fin

have fun blogging