class: title-slide, center, bottom # Building website with Blogdown ## Danyang Dai #### R-Ladies Melbourne Meetup · 2021-05-19 ??? I am honored to be here today and work with you all. It's the our first in person event and I am very excited to share my experience with Blogdown and building website with you all together tonight! Before we start, can we do a quick survey about your experience with R. Please put your hand up if you worked with blogdown before. Have you worked with R markdown before? Have you worked with R before? Great! now that I have an basic idea about your experience now. Let's get started! --- # About Me - Graduated from Monash University with Bachelors of Commerce in 2018 - Graduated from University of Melbourne with Masters in applied econometrics 2020 - Currently looking for data driven employment opportunities in Melbourne area <img src="figs/edu_plot-1.png" width="60%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> --- background-image: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(250, 250, 250, .5), rgba(250, 250, 250, .6)),url(images/background1.png) background-size: cover class: center, middle # Find Me at [<svg viewBox="0 0 496 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" style="height:1em;fill:currentColor;position:relative;display:inline-block;top:.1em;"> <path d="M165.9 397.4c0 2-2.3 3.6-5.2 3.6-3.3.3-5.6-1.3-5.6-3.6 0-2 2.3-3.6 5.2-3.6 3-.3 5.6 1.3 5.6 3.6zm-31.1-4.5c-.7 2 1.3 4.3 4.3 4.9 2.6 1 5.6 0 6.2-2s-1.3-4.3-4.3-5.2c-2.6-.7-5.5.3-6.2 2.3zm44.2-1.7c-2.9.7-4.9 2.6-4.6 4.9.3 2 2.9 3.3 5.9 2.6 2.9-.7 4.9-2.6 4.6-4.6-.3-1.9-3-3.2-5.9-2.9zM244.8 8C106.1 8 0 113.3 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Tada: It's an R package! --- background-image: url(images/blogdown-3.jpg background-size: 100% ??? It allows you to build website in R. --- background-image: url(images/blogdown-4.jpg) background-size: 100% ??? you can publish your website that is created in R with blogdown to world -- .center[<img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/JmUfwENE6i4Jxig27n/giphy.gif" style="width:60%"/>] --- class: center, bottom background-image: url(images/blogdown-14.jpg) background-size: 100% <https://alison.rbind.io> <iframe src="https://alison.rbind.io" height="400" width="1200" frameborder="0"></iframe> ??? Alison is a PhD data scientist and professional educator at RStudio. I have been benefits a lot from here presentations and workshops. Her github is a gold min. --- class: center, bottom background-image: url(images/blogdown-14.jpg) background-size: 100% <http://www.dicook.org> <iframe src="http://www.dicook.org" height="400" width="1200" frameborder="0"></iframe> ??? Di is a well-respect professor of business analytics at Monash. She have been super super supporting to me and to R Ladies Melbourne. --- class: center, bottom background-image: url(images/blogdown-14.jpg) background-size: 100% <https://earo.me> <iframe src="https://earo.me" height="400" width="1200" frameborder="0"></iframe> ??? Earo is now a lecture at Auckland. She has a very cool customised website --- class: center, bottom background-image: url(images/blogdown-14.jpg) background-size: 100% <https://dai.netlify.app> <iframe src="https://dai.netlify.app" height="400" width="1200" frameborder="0"></iframe> ??? Even they all looks different and unique, they are actaully all using the same Hugo theme which is the academic theme we will be working with today. --- background-image: url(images/how-10.jpg) background-size: 100% --- background-image: url(images/how-12.jpg) background-size: 100% ??? Hugo is a static site generator. Blogdown uses Hugo to create and build webiste in R. It also provides the themes we used in Blogdown --- class: center, bottom # What do I want my website to look like? <https://themes.gohugo.io> <iframe src="https://themes.gohugo.io" height="600" width="1200" frameborder="0"></iframe> ??? Here is where you go brows for all the different themes you can adopt for your website. --- background-image: url(images/how-11.jpg) background-size: 100% ??? You can tell and share your stories by adding blog posts in your website using R markdown. --- background-image: url(images/post1.jpg) background-size: 100% class: center, top # What do I want to put on my website? ??? Simply use the addins from the top. Cick on new post --- background-image: url(images/post2.jpg) background-size: 100% class: center, top # What do I want to put on my website? .footnote[ <https://dai.netlify.app/talk/r-markdown-a-better-way-of-communicating-with-data/> ] ??? Just in case you haven't used R markdown before, check out my last talk from the website in the footnote --- background-image: url(images/how-13.jpg) background-size: 100% ??? Keeping the website to ourself is like a dairy, you might want to share your story to the world. To do that we need to connect our Blogdown project with Github. --- background-image: url(images/github1.jpg) background-size: 100% class: center, top # How to create a github repo? ??? here are some very simple steps on how to create a github repo. copy the HTTPS link if you don't know that SSH is --- background-image: url(images/git2.jpg) background-size: 100% class: center, top # How to clone a repo in R Studio? --- background-image: url(images/how-14.jpg) background-size: 100% ??? We are almost there to make your webiste alive! That was not enough access it easily. You can simply connect your github with Netlify which host your website for free!!!! --- background-image: url(images/netlify1.jpg) background-size: 100% # Netlify deploy --- background-image: url(images/before1.jpg) background-size: 100% ??? Here is a check list before we start making a website using Blogdown --- background-image: url(images/before2.jpg) background-size: 100% --- background-image: url(images/before3.jpg) background-size: 100% --- background-image: url(images/before4.jpg) background-size: 100% --- background-image: url(images/before-5.jpg) background-size: 100% --- background-image: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(250, 250, 250, .5), rgba(250, 250, 250, .6)),url(images/background1.png) background-size: cover class: center, middle # Save you some Googling time [Blogdown installation guide](https://github.com/rstudio/blogdown) [Github account](https://docs.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/signing-up-for-a-new-github-account) [Hugo Themes](https://themes.gohugo.io) Websites themes [netlify](https://www.netlify.com) [“I web, therefore I am a spiderman.”- Yihui Xie](https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/) blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown [Alison Hill](https://summer-of-blogdown.netlify.app) Summer of blogdown [Emi Tanaka](https://rladies-melb-blogdown.netlify.app/#1) Getting down and up with blogging in R ??? Here are some links I provided for you to save your some googling time. In case you haven't tick all the boxes on the check list, the frist 4 links would help you to set it up. If you want to learn more about blogdown, I highly recommend blogdown textbook to read more about it.It is a comprehensive guide of blogdown. Also feel free to check out Alsion and Emi's workshop about blogdown. They are great materils for learning more about blogdown --- background-image: url(images/before-6.jpg) background-size: 100% --- background-image: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(250, 250, 250, .5), rgba(250, 250, 250, .4)),url(images/begincode.jpeg) background-size: cover class: center, top # Let's begin our journey Copy this lines of code to your RStudio Console: ```r library(blogdown) new_site(theme = "wowchemy/starter-academic") ``` --- background-image:url(images/begincode2.jpg) background-size: 100% --- background-image: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(250, 250, 250, .5), rgba(250, 250, 250, .4)),url(images/begincode.jpeg) background-size: cover class: center, top ## Serve site ```r blogdown::serve_site() ``` ## Stop serving site ```r blogdown::stop_server() ``` ### Blogdown automatic serve site everytime you make a change and saved it. So no need to serve site everytime --- background-image:url(images/folder1.jpg) background-size: 100% class: center, top # Let's look at the structure of the files ??? Be aware that this instruction are to the academic-start theme only. The structure of the files and folders might very from themes to themes --- background-image:url(images/folder2.jpg) background-size: 100% class: center, top # Make some changes --- background-image:url(images/folder3.jpg) background-size: 100% class: center, top # Where should I change to make this mine --- background-image:url(images/folder4.jpg) background-size: 100% class: center, right # Example: experience.md --- background-image:url(images/folder5.jpg) background-size: 100% .footnote[yaml syntax: <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/YAMLSyntax.html> ] --- background-image:url(images/config1.jpg) background-size: 100% class: center, right # What is config? --- background-image:url(images/config2.jpg) background-size: 100% .footnote[choose of colors: <https://wowchemy.com/docs/getting-started/customization/> ] --- class: center, middle # Working time! .center[<img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/aNqEFrYVnsS52/giphy.gif" style="width:60%"/>] --- class: left, middle # check list before publish it to Netlify .pull-left[ - Check your site's configuration - Screens for items you should remove, and for items you can safely add - Check your Hugo versions - Check your Hugo content - Check your Netlify setup ] .pull-right[ ```r blogdown::check_config() blogdown::check_gitignore() blogdown::check_hugo() blogdown::check_content() blogdown::check_netlify() ``` ] .footnote[Read more from: <https://alison.rbind.io/post/2020-12-27-blogdown-checks/> ] --- class: center, middle # Stay in Touch .center[<img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/RiykPw9tgdOylwFgUe/giphy.gif" style="width:30%"/>] [<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" style="height:1em;fill:currentColor;position:relative;display:inline-block;top:.1em;"> <path d="M476 3.2L12.5 270.6c-18.1 10.4-15.8 35.6 2.2 43.2L121 358.4l287.3-253.2c5.5-4.9 13.3 2.6 8.6 8.3L176 407v80.5c0 23.6 28.5 32.9 42.5 15.8L282 426l124.6 52.2c14.2 6 30.4-2.9 33-18.2l72-432C515 7.8 493.3-6.8 476 3.2z"></path></svg> danyan.dai01@gmail.com](mailto:danyan.dai01@gmail.com) [<svg viewBox="0 0 448 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" style="height:1em;fill:currentColor;position:relative;display:inline-block;top:.1em;"> <path d="M416 32H31.9C14.3 32 0 46.5 0 64.3v383.4C0 465.5 14.3 480 31.9 480H416c17.6 0 32-14.5 32-32.3V64.3c0-17.8-14.4-32.3-32-32.3zM135.4 416H69V202.2h66.5V416zm-33.2-243c-21.3 0-38.5-17.3-38.5-38.5S80.9 96 102.2 96c21.2 0 38.5 17.3 38.5 38.5 0 21.3-17.2 38.5-38.5 38.5zm282.1 243h-66.4V312c0-24.8-.5-56.7-34.5-56.7-34.6 0-39.9 27-39.9 54.9V416h-66.4V202.2h63.7v29.2h.9c8.9-16.8 30.6-34.5 62.9-34.5 67.2 0 79.7 44.3 79.7 101.9V416z"></path></svg> https://www.linkedin.com/in/danyang-dai-7529b4152/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danyang-dai-7529b4152/)