To write a new post (like this one) using blogdown in RStudio, just click “Addins” -> “New Post” near the top of the RStudio window. Here’s some junk R code. In the chunk options, just set eval=FALSE. plot(x) I should get used to writing (R) markdown pretty quickly, after translating a few of my plot posts. Just for fun, here’s a plot. plot(x <- seq(-10,10,length.out=100), sin(x), type='l', xlab='x', ylab='sin(x)') Syntax highlighting At time of writing, I’m still having problems with syntax highlighting.