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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

# Let's generate a website
RStudio’s New Project Wizard makes it remarkably easy to generate blogdown websites that use the Hugo framework behind the scenes. The steps to create our website are as follows:
* Launch RStudio and install the `blogdown` package by running `install.packages("blogdown")` in the R console.
* Create a new RStudio Project by going to: File > New Project > New Directory > Website using blogdown.
* Configure the website to the Hugo Anatole theme by setting the "Hugo theme" field to "lxndrblz/anatole." Click "Create Project" to generate the website.

We can refer to the following slides for visualizing the steps.

Let's find out how to create an RStudio project locally on our device.

Set Up an RStudio Project Locally

Getting Started

Creating and Deploying the Website

Personalizing the Website

Wrapping Up

Appendix

Set Up an RStudio Project Locally

Let’s generate a website