My goal was to make a simple website to highlight my work experience by different categories. I also wanted a website that I could use to demo R projects over time. The reason I went with a static site generator because I applied for a job where the knowledge was an asset (I did not get the job but now I have some experience with Hugo).
Goals:
- Clean and simple layout
- Ability to organize posts by category
- To use R/ R Studio
- Experiment with a static website generator (in this case, Hugo)
In my search, I found the R package blogdown by Yihui Xie, Amber Thomas, and Alison Presmanes Hill. They have a great tutorial for creating your website and getting it deployed.
For deployment, I used Netlify, which took more time than I would like to admit. I spent 2 days wondering why my site was not working despite following the tutorial step-by-step only to finally discover I had put in the wrong baseURL in my config.yaml file. Now it’s fixed, hopefully!
The theme used is PaperMod by Aditya Telange.