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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

# How we get started

If you don't have a Google Analytics account, you can go to [Google Analytics](https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/) homepage and locate the "Start for free" button. Once we've signed up for Google Analytics, we'll need to create an account, property, and tracking ID for our website. Placing the tracking ID into the `config.yaml` file and triggering a fresh website deployment will complete the Google Analytics integration and enable us to analyze the data immediately.

# How to set up Google Analytics
We can follow these steps to integrate Google Analytics, or GA, into our website:
1. First, we sign in to Google Analytics and click "Start measuring" to create an account.
2. Under "Account setup," provide an appropriate name (for example, personal-website), and configure the "Account Data Sharing Settings." The defaults should be fine. Click "Next."
3. Under "Property setup," provide an appropriate name (for example, personal-website-property).
4. Click on "Show advanced options" to create a Universal Analytics property. For the Website URL, we'll provide the URL to our website. Click "Next."
5. Under "About your business," we can configure the settings to our liking. Click "Next" and accept the terms of service.
6. We can find the tracking ID by returning back to the Admin console and selecting the "Account" and "Property" that we created in the previous steps. 

   > **Note:** We have to make sure we locate the Universal Analytics property that's property name reads `UA-XXXXXXX-X` and not the GA4 property. 

7. Under "Property," click on "Tracking Info" > "Tracking Code." Copy the tracking ID, which takes the form of `UA-XXXXXXXXX-1`.
8. Also, copy the "Global Site Tag" (`gtag.js`), which is a small script that enables GA tracking on our web page.
9. Open `config/_default/params.toml` in the main directory and create a `googleAnalytics` parameter. We'll insert our tracking code as the parameter value.

Let's find out how to integrate Google Analytics into your website to capture user activity.

Integrate Google Analytics to the Website

Getting Started

Creating and Deploying the Website

Personalizing the Website

Wrapping Up

Appendix

Integrate Google Analytics to the Website

How we get started

How to set up Google Analytics