Closes #75.

1.  Created `bin/repo_check.py`.
2.  Moved `require()` to `util.py`.
3.  Updated `Makefile` with new target.

add function knitr_fig_path

Only cleaning intermediate R files on demand.

1.  Use site.root for root path if set, otherwise use site.github.url.
2.  Display extra files for workshop-template repo as well as for lessons.

1.  Moving all YAML library usage into 'util.py' via utility function.
2.  Wrapping 'import yaml' in error handling to report what library to install.