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Launching a Personal Website Using R

Build a Website From Scratch

Let's get acquainted with a blogdown website project.

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Project directory structure

A blogdown application project consists of numerous files that build the website. We can see some of the notable files and folders in the directory tree below:

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my-website/
├─ config/
│  ├─ _default/
│  │  ├─ languages.toml
│  │  ├─ menus.en.toml
│  │  ├─ params.toml
├─ content/
│  ├─ english/
│  │  ├─ post/
│  │  │  ├─ post1.md
│  │  ├─ _index.md
│  │  ├─ about.md
├─ static/
│  ├─ favicons/
│  ├─ images/
├─ themes/
│  ├─ anatole/
│  │  ├─ assets/
│  │  │  ├─ css/
│  │  │  ├─ js/
│  │  │  ├─ scss/
├─ config.yaml

  • The config/ directory and the configuration file config.yaml are used to specify different settings for the website, including the title, language and author.

  • The main content of the file goes into the content/ directory. This content can be in the form of pages or posts in ...