cdnce (“cadence”) modifies generated .html pages so that they load JavaScript and CSS resources from remote CDNs instead of from local files. This can greatly reduce their strain on your bandwidth.

You can install the development version of cdnce from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("szego/cdnce")

Consider a simple document using the tufte style:

---
title: "An Example Using the Tufte Style"
author: "John Smith"
output:
  tufte::tufte_html:
    tufte_features: ["fonts", "background", "italics"]
    self_contained: false
---

# Blah blah

Some more blah

Note that we set self_contained: false in the YAML header. This is necessary for cdnce.

Suppose we had knit this document into the file “test.html”. To replace its local dependencies with remote ones on CDNs using cdnce, we can run

cdnce::cdnify_tufte("test.html")