Building `md` from `Rmd` in a script like this will break if the `methods` package is not called and the code includes class object routines. See https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/issues/478

`generate_md_episodes()` is modified such that datasets storred into
_episodes_rmd/data/ needed to knit the episodes, are copied into
_episodes/data/, and are made available at the root of the site.