--- title: About this blog url: {lib: libraries} highlighter: prettify hitheme: twitter-bootstrap framework: purus mode: selfcontained --- &lead This blog hosted on Github is created and managed by [poirot](http://github.com/ramnathv/poirot). --- **Installing Poirot** Poirot is still under development and can be installed from github using [devtools](http:github.com/hadley/devtools). You will also need to install the development versions of [slidify](http://github.com/ramnathv/slidify) and [slidifyLibraries](http://github.com/ramnathv/slidifyLibraries). ```{r eval = F} require(devtools) install_github('poirot', 'ramnathv') install_github('slidify', 'ramnathv', ref = 'dev') install_github('slidifyLibraries', 'ramnathv') ``` Poirot uses **markdown** for text content, **knitr** for code chunks and **mustache** for templating. Poirot is highly extensible using widgets. As a publishing framework for data scientists, Poirot comes pre-equipped with support for math, visualization and tables.