Google analytics on a single distill page?

[ColinConwell]

Question: is it possible to include the google_analytics: 'tracking_id' on a single static distill article? (Generated with rmarkdown::render('name_of_page.Rmd')?

Or is some sort of site rendering necessary?

Ideally, I'd like to be able to add analytics (without manually editing the .html file) without creating an entire site.

[edornshuld]

This can be done by using includes: (see https://github.com/rstudio/distill/issues/378)

Create an HTML file with the analytics scripts. I was able to find mine by inspecting an existing page and finding the

1. googletagmanager script
2. google-site-verification meta line

Pasting that into the filename.html file and then pointing to it in the YAML did the trick.

Add to YAML:

includes:
   in_header: filename.html

Knit file individually.