It is now two weeks since the last post - not a good start to the plan to be a little more active with social updates, progress reports and thoughts.

Here is a brief reminder (for the author alone) of the process for creating a blog post.

• The first task is to use the Addins dialog in RStudio to create a new post.

We the hack at the Rmd (or md) template for a bit, share words of wisdom and thoughts. Proof-read, commit and push. Then finally - using a Terminal tab or window just run the script

# pull, prepare, commit and push
sh ./scripts/deploy.sh

Should be as simple as that…

edits - so the page was published to gh-pages and guess what? The figure that should have been included above doesn’t show - macOS standard screenshot nomenclature with lots of spaces … The easiest fix here is hopefully just to rename the file from Screen Shot 2021-01-23 at 4.43.02 pm.png to ScreenShot2021-01-23.png.

Nextly, the image included appears MASSIVE. There are some ways to deal with this; this could involve rescaling the image using e.g. ImageMagick but just scaling the image for display would be preferable. There are a load of comments and discussions that using the HTML <img src> ... would be the way to go. This however seems to lead to a <!-- raw HTML omitted --> being placed in the rendered HTML page.

Curious indeed. This is apparently something curious to do with HUGO; the rendering software deep behind this blogdown software. The solution here was as simple as enabling unsafe HTML - this can be achieved by pasting the following lines into the config.toml file that defines this site.

[markup.goldmark.renderer]
  unsafe = true

To finish off let’s replace our canonical ![](images/ScreenShot2021-01-23.png) with the scaled <img src="images/ScreenShot2021-01-23.png" width=75% height=75%> and we’re done!