Week 6 - Publishing

This week, you will begin working on your academic portfolio site. The deliverable for the week is a URL (on Netlify, or wherever) for a simple personal site with the following criteria:

1. A completed “About” page, containing a short professional bio following the methods & advice given on the course site for today
2. A photo (not necessarily of you)
3. At least one stylistic aspect changed from the original template (font, color, etc.)
4. A sub-page containing one of the visualizations that you have created for an assignment/lab in this class, with an associated description.
5. All boilerplate (example) content that came with the theme should be removed. I am talking about things like, for example:
   1. The “resources” section
   2. The randomly-titled “second page”
   3. The config settings should also be updated (e.g., the page title should not be “RMarkdown Demo” or anything like that), etc.
   4. Hint: Make sure to look in the _site.yml file!

Resources

• Chapter 3 of “R Markdown: The Definitive Guide” by Xie et al. has a section on themes
• Chapter 10 of the same book has a detailed discussion of the workflow for a simple website.
  • See specifically section 10.5 for info about RMarkdown’s built-in static site generator.
  • Of particular interest is the section on the navbar part of _site.yml
• Julia Lowndes’s RMarkdown Tutorial is a good overview of a possible workflow
• If you find yourself feeling stifled by how simplistic RMarkdown’s functionality is, you may wish to check out:
  • Quarto, which has support for more complex sites
  • Blogdown, which is even more involved