Making Websites & Blogs

What is this?
Excerpt from ebook: We introduce an R package, blogdown, in this short book, to teach you how to create websites using R Markdown and Hugo. If you have experience with creating websites, you may naturally ask what the benefits of using R Markdown are, and how blogdown is different from existing popular website platforms, such as WordPress.

Link to ebook here: https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/

Creating a blog with Quarto in 10 steps

By Beatriz Milz

Added Sun April 30th 2023

What is this?

Excerpt from blog: I'm going to write about some of the steps that you need to take to create a blog with Quarto.

Link to blog here: https://beamilz.com/posts/2022-06-05-creating-a-blog-with-quarto/en/

How to make your own website for free in under an hour

By Quintana 💯

What is this?

Excerpt from blog: This tutorial will walk you through how to make your own website for free using the blogdown package in RStudio.

Link to blog here(2019): https://www.dsquintana.blog/free-website-in-r-easy/
Updated blog here (2020): https://www.dsquintana.blog/create-an-academic-website-free-easy-2020/
Link to video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox_Ue9yzf-0

How to build your personal academic website using opensource software

By Lena V. Kremin 💯

What is this?

Excerpt from site: By following this workshop, you will go through the first steps of setting up your own academic website. Your finished website will contain your biography, photo, CV, contact information, and recent publications.

Link to materials here: https://osf.io/jdv4n/

Making shareable documents with Quarto

By Openscapes

Added Sun April 30th 2023

What is this?

Excerpt from blog: This is a 1-hour tutorial that can be used to teach or as self-paced learning.

We introduce Quarto by exploring this tutorial website, and practicing the basic Quarto workflow using different tools (GitHub browser, RStudio, and Jupyter) for editing your website.

We'll start off from the browser so you don't need to install any additional software, however this approach is very limited and you will soon outgrow its capabilities. If you don't already have a workflow to edit files and sync to GitHub from your computer, I recommend RStudio. You don't need to know R to use RStudio, and it has powerful editor features that make for happy workflows.

Link to blog here: https://openscapes.github.io/quarto-website-tutorial/

Mastering Shiny

By Hadley Wickham

What is this?
Excerpt from ebook: This book complements Shiny’s online documentation and is intended to help app authors develop a deeper understanding of Shiny. After reading this book, you’ll be able to write apps that have more customized UI, more maintainable code, and better performance and scalability.

Link to web-book here: https://mastering-shiny.org/

PrettyDoc Package

Added Fri Oct 8th 2021

What is this?

Excerpt from site: The prettydoc package provides an alternative engine, html_pretty, to knit your R Markdown document into pretty HTML pages. Its usage is extremely easy: simply replace the rmarkdown::html_document or rmarkdown::html_vignette output engine by prettydoc::html_pretty in your R Markdown header, and use one of the built-in themes and syntax highlighters.

Link to site here: https://prettydoc.statr.me/

The ultimate guide to starting a Quarto blog

By Albert Rapp

Added Sun April 30th 2023

What is this?

Excerpt from blog: Today, I want to show you how to build a blog with Quarto. This in-depth guide is the result of hours of working with Quarto's amazingly detailed documentation. Hopefully, it will save you a lot of time and helps you start your own blog. Here's what we will cover:

Link to blog here: https://albert-rapp.de/posts/13_quarto_blog_writing_guide/13_quarto_blog_writing_guide.html

Using GitHub Actions to Build your Hugo Website

Added Sun June 6th 2021

What is this?

Excerpt from blog: What we want is Github Actions to run certain operations on a set schedule, build our website with hugo, and then trigger a Netlify deployment. In particular, we want to render the content/about.Rmd and knit my CV which is located in content/about/resume/am_mowinckel_cv.Rmd, and not commit these to git, just have them rendered right before Hugo build

Link to blog here: https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2021-03-23-using-github-actions-to-build-your-hugo-website/