Contributing to this Blog

IMPORTANT: Please only pull request this repository if you have already been invited or approved by the data.table community team, or if you are proposing a new Seal of Approval package by following the template. If you would like to propose a guest blog post, email r.data.table@gmail.com and we will get back to you shortly.

1. Fork this repository.

2. In the posts directory, copy the a folder corresponding to your anticipated blog post. It should use the form YYYY-MM-DD-post_title-author_name, where the date is the anticipated date of publication, the title is an abbreviated version of your topic, and the name is yours.

3. Copy the posts/2023-10-02-post-template/index.qmd into your newly created directory. Do not rename this file!

4. Open your new YYYY-MM-DD-post_title-author_name/index.qmd that you have just copied and edit the header. You should change the title, date and author fields. If you wish to add a picture to the post add it to the directory and rename it ìmage.jpg.

---
title: "Guest Post on The Raft"
author: "A.N.Other"
date: "2023-10-18"
categories: [news, code, analysis]
image: "image.jpg"
draft: true
---

5. In the body of index.qmd, compose your blog post.

This is a post with executable code.

```{r}
1 + 1
```

6. Render your document only (not the full quarto project) to preview it.

7. When you are finished, stage, commit and push your index.qmd and image.jpg only, do NOT include any of the built files (they should be ignored by git automatically though).

8. Your fork on GitHub will now be ahead of the rdatatable-community/The-Raft from which you've branched and you should see the option to Contribute. Doing so will create a Pull Request, once merged the post will be published in due course.