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MAKING WEBSITES
Jeff Goldsmith, PhD
Department of Biostatistics
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• Just kidding, we all know what a website is
What is a web site …??
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• Just kidding, we all know what a website is
– …Or do we?
What is a web site …??
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• Just kidding, we all know what a website is
– …Or do we?
• For our purposes a website is a collection of related pages, written in HTML,
hosted on a server, and retrievable using an easy-to-remember name
What is a web site …??
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• Personal site, so people (employers) can find you
• Site for a project
• Site for an R package
• I dunno, you want to blog?
Why do I need to make one?
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Do I need to know HTML?
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• Of course not, this isn’t 1997 and you’re not putting a website on geocities
Do I need to know HTML?
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• Of course not, this isn’t 1997 and you’re not putting a website on geocities
Do I need to know HTML?
(Golden age of the internet)
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• R Markdown renders content (with or without R code) to several formats,
including HTML
• That is, you can write a detailed website using only R
• Occasionally, knowing some HTML will get you out of trouble, but it’s not
necessary for a lot of stuff
Plus you already know RMD
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---
title: "My awesome website"
output:
html_document:
toc: true
toc_float: true
theme: cerulean
---
# This is Jeff's awesome website
rmarkdown
(Slide stolen from Jeff Leek)
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---
title: "My awesome website"
output:
html_document:
toc: true
toc_float: true
theme: cerulean
---
# This is Jeff's awesome website
rmarkdown
(Slide stolen from Jeff Leek)
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• R Markdown can be used to build the website, but you still have to host it for
other people to be able to find it
• Lots of places let you host things for free now, including GitHub
– Repository = website
– Domain names are well-structured
– New pushes to remote are reflected in the web site
– Easy collaboration on websites for projects
Knowing
RMD
is half the battle
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• A lot like your “standard” workflow:
– Create repo + R Project
– Copy template website into the directory
– Edit repo settings so GitHub knows this is a website
– Edit content and push
Workflow for websites