for admins

README.md

@@ -6,4 +6,23 @@ visualizations with reproducible program code that makes the plots.
 
 See <http://vis.supstat.com> for more information.
 
+For admins, you are recommended to compile the website under Linux, and you
+will need a couple of packages. For example, you can install them under
+Ubuntu:
 
+```bash
+sudo apt-get install rake jekyll sshfs r-base
+```
+
+Then `install.packages('knitr')` in R. The whole website can be built (after
+all missing packages have been installed) using
+
+```bash
+rake knit
+```
+
+and previewed at http://localhost:4000 by
+
+```bash
+rake preview
+```