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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

We assume that you already have a GitHub account. If not, you can go to [GitHub.com](https://github.com/) and click "Sign up for GitHub".

# Set up the GitHub repository

Since we've seen how our website looks, we can now follow the steps below to create a remote GitHub repository for our website, configure a local Git repository, and push our website files from the platform to the remote repository.


1. To create a remote GitHub repository we can sign in to GitHub and click "New" in the Repositories section. We can configure the repository accordingly and then click "Create repository."

   > **Note:** We need to create a *public* repository so that it can be authenticated with Netlify later.



Let's learn how to push our website to a GitHub repository and make updates.

Push the Website to GitHub

Getting Started

Creating and Deploying the Website

Personalizing the Website

Wrapping Up

Appendix

Push the Website to GitHub

Set up the GitHub repository