All the material in this presentation is pulled from there sources:

GitHub Pages getting started guide

Emily Zabor’s Creating websites in R

De Leon and Hill’s rstudio4edu

RStudio and Garrett Grolemund R Markdown Websites.

These references are much more in-depth and will teach you many additional tricks.

Must do:

• Install R and RStudio
• Sign up for a GitHub account
• Install and set up GitHub Desktop

Good to do:

• Review R Markdown Cheat Sheet

• Follow the pages directions
• Create a repository in the browser called username.github.io
• Clone the repository using the “Set up in Desktop” button

• Create an index.html file in the repository folder on your computer

• Commit and publish, then go to [username].github.io to make sure things are working.

• When you know it is working, delete the .html file.

• Create a new project in an existing folder, house it in your Github repository local folder
• Run rmarkdown:::site_skeleton(getwd())

• In the .yml file, insert after the first line:

output_dir: “.”

• Save the .yml file

• rmarkdown::render_site()

• Commit and push in Github Desktop

• index.rmd: your homepage
• _site.yml: the structure of the website
• whatever other files you want

This is just an R Markdown file. Pretty much anything you can do in an R Markdown, you can do here (though no Shiny embedding).

Don’t know markdown? R Markdown Cheat Sheet

• When you are done editing your R Markdown files, in the terminal type:

rmarkdown::render_site()

• Then, check and see if they worked locally
• Commit and push through GitHub desktop

You now know one of the nerd secret handshakes.

• Add a new page - just make a new .rmd, then and add the .html to the .yml
• Add slick icons
• Add a TOC to a page
• Embed R or Python code chunks and output