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Delve into building a personal website using R. Learn about GitHub, Hugo, Netlify, and Google Analytics to customize and launch your site effortlessly.

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R is one of the major programming languages for working with big data. This course will walk you through building a personal website using R.

To create a website, you don’t need any prior web development experience. This course will introduce you to various freely available tools, including GitHub, Hugo, Netlify, and Google Analytics. This course teaches you how to use R to create a comprehensive website utilizing these tools. You’ll be able to modify a theme and personalize it according to your needs.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to build a personal website, blog, or portfolio using R.

Launching a Personal Website Using R

GitHub and Netlify work together to make it remarkably simple to deploy our website to the internet. We simply have to upload our website codebase to GitHub, then configure Netlify to deploy our website with a few simple clicks. Once our website is live, Netlify will automatically rebuild and redeploy the website whenever we push updates to our GitHub repository. This process is known as **continuous deployment**.

We assume you already have a Netlify account. If not, we can go to [Netlify's](https://app.netlify.com) homepage and log in with our GitHub account to link our GitHub with Netlify.  


# Configure Netlify for deployment

With our website codebase on GitHub, we can follow these steps to deploy our website on Netlify:

1. Log in to Netlify and click "New site from Git".
2. Select GitHub as the "Continuous deployment provider", then choose our website’s GitHub repository.
3. Leave the site settings as they are and click "Deploy site" to deploy our website
to the internet.

Let's find out how to deploy the website to the internet using Netlify and GitHub.

Deploying the Website

Go Live on the Internet

Getting Started

Creating and Deploying the Website

Personalizing the Website

Wrapping Up

Appendix

Go Live on the Internet