Build Your Own Free Website Part 1 - The Basics (Feat. Quarto)
Today, we're going to show you how to easily create your own How to create a free homepageThere's a lot to cover, so I'm going to break it up into several parts. If you don't have R and RStudio installed, you can download the Postin the following example.
Installing R, RStudio - Windows
In this post, I'll show you how to install R and RStudio, the essentials for programming in R...
Those who play around on the web have probably created a Naver blog at least once, but can you create a website with R?? I'm not familiar with R or website creation, so can I do it?
'Yes. You can do it!'With Quarto'Terry' If you're not fooled, just give it a try and follow along! As you follow along, you'll find yourself thinking, "Wow, this really works!" So let's get started!
1. Start building your homepage - Create a New Project
First, launch RStudio and click the File-New Project-New Directory Click Click Click Click in order.
Oops! I forgot to mention Quarto. Below I've pulled the text from the Quarto main screen, so you can see for yourself. HereClick on the ~! Quartois open source, and the Science and technology-specific publishing systemsin the introduction.
About Quarto
Welcome to Quarto®
An open-source scientific and technical publishing system
Author using Jupyter notebooks or with plain text markdown in your favorite editor.
Create dynamic content with Python, R, Julia, and Observable.
Publish reproducible, production quality articles, presentations, dashboards, websites, blogs, and books in HTML, PDF, MS Word, ePub, and more.
Share knowledge and insights organization-wide by publishing to Posit Connect, Confluence, or other publishing systems.
Write using Pandoc markdown, including equations, citations, crossrefs, figure panels, callouts, advanced layout, and more.
Analyze. Share. Reproduce. You have a story to tell with data-tell it with Quarto.
Welcome to Quato.
Open source scientific and technical publishing system
Jupyter Use a laptop or
Write using plain text markdown in your favorite editor.
Python , R , Julia and Observable to to create dynamic content.
Publish quality, reproducible articles, presentations, dashboards, websites, blogs, and books in HTML, PDF, MS Word, ePub, and more.
Posit Connect , Confluence or other publishing systems to share knowledge and insights across your organization.
Equations, citations, cross-references, figure panels, callouts, advanced layouts, and more.
Pandoc Write it using Markdown .
Analyze, share, and reproduce. If you have a story to tell with your data, Quarto is here to help.
2. Create a Quarto Website Project
In the Project Type window, click Quarto Websiteto specify a directory name and folder, and then click Create Projectin the left sidebar. To specify a folder, click the Browser button. So far, so good, right?
3. Install the Markdown Package
Did I do something wrong? Our work has a markdown packageand you don't have it installed, so RStudio is kind enough to tell you: click the yellow-banded installto install that package.
In the lower-right (dotted box) Files pane, you can see the index.qmd file, and now we've created five files. Oooh! I only did click, click, click... That's cool! Now, let's go ahead and create the Render(keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + K or B).
4. Render Quarto
I ran the render, waited a bit, and lo and behold, my personalized homepage popped up! I clicked 'About' to go to that section, and 'Home' again to go to that section. I clicked 'quarto-website' and it took me to the same screen as 'Home'. I see an address in the address bar that starts with localhost.
localhost is The loopback address used by a computer network, meaning your own computer.An Internet address that is "assigned to a computer as if it were virtually connected to the Internet network" to test the computer's network capabilities. -Source: Wikipedia
You were clicking around a bit earlier, clicking About, Home, quarto-website, etc. RStudio knows about all of this. (If you click on the 'Background Jobs' tab in the lower left corner, you'll see a list of website behaviors. I think this is called Listening. The server is watching and listening~) Bottom-right Files paneyou'll see that the 'create website' is not showing the _site folderand navigate inside the folder to see a bunch of files.
Organize
To summarize, File > New Project > New Directory > Quato Website > Create > Install Markdown Pack > Render In roughly six steps, we've created our very own basic website! Wow, is your head spinning? Let's take a break for a moment. Next upand we'll see you there.
Creating a Life Buccaneer, LIFE2.0: IT Playground, Terrywas!
Thank you.
(The information below is a summary of the answers we asked and received from ChatGPT).
Render semantics
In the context of creating a website with RStudio and Quarto, "rendering" refers to the process of converting a source document, typically written in a markup language such as Markdown or RMarkdown, into a format such as HTML, PDF, or Word.
When working with Quarto in RStudio, you write content in Markdown or RMarkdown files, along with code chunks for analysis or visualization. When you're done writing content and preparing the final output, use the quarto::render() function to run the render.
This feature reads the source file, evaluates every chunk of code, combines the results with "text and formatting instructions," and finally generates a deliverable. Depending on the options you specify, you can create HTML files, PDFs, or other formats for web publishing.
To summarize, you can use RStudio and Quarto to "render" your source code and get the output in the form you want, whether it's HTML or PDF.
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