Roadmap

1. R markdown websites
2. Distill websites
3. blogdown websites

R Markdown websites

• Get started here

Basic Steps

1. Make a new R studio project
2. Choose simple R markdown website
3. Click build website from build tab
4. Look at your basic website!

_site.yml

Edit the yml file to change the site navigation bar

name: "my-website"
navbar:
  title: "My Website"
  left:
    - text: "Home"
      href: index.html
    - text: "About"
      href: about.html

Editing pages

1. index.Rmd is the home page, edit it by changing the text in the .Rmd
2. about.Rmd is a sample about page.
3. Make new .Rmds, add them to the navbar in `_site.yml’
4. Rebuild pages

Hosting

1. Your website could be hosted from any server
2. upload to your github repo, and host it through github pages

More complicated websites

There are several R markdown website generators that offer more bells and whistles.

They have a similar general structure to the basic R website:

• a yml file typically controls navigation bar content
• Rmds are used to write content for individual pages
• css is used to style everything
• some sites are set up for easy blogging

Website with distill

https://rstudio.github.io/distill/website.html

Website with blogdown

https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/

https://www.apreshill.com/blog/2020-12-new-year-new-blogdown/