Since the start of my Doctoral studies I’ve always performed the literature exploration “the hard way”. Meaning, that I’ve performed most of my literature searches by hand, attempting to manually locate the key articles in the domain. While I’ve got an in-depth comprehension of the field, it remains possible that I’ve overlooked some of interesting literature clusters. However, there always existed a possibility to avoid such mistakes: by performing a thorough bibliometrics study instead of the simple literature overview.

Cette publication est orienté vers les étudiants qui vont suivre des cours ou faire de Projets / mener des TER avec moi cette année. Elle vise à proposer un aperçu des outils essentiels pour faciliter et simplifier le travail. Particulièrement :

• Git
• GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket (ici nous parlerons du GitLab hebergé par GRICAD)
• LaTeX
• Markdown
• RMarkdown

Ce sont des outils principaux pour bien organiser son travail de la recherche et pouvoir l’accompagner par des supports numeriques.

In this part, we are finally approaching one of the most important and interesting topics, when creating a website: the deployment process. I do not believe that this will be the end of the sequence about the websites, because there are some more interesting topics. Among them:

• RSS (Really Simple Syndication) configuration
• Templates
• Custom layouts
• Java Script (JS) embedding
• Synchronisation
• Migration
• And many more

But let’s leave these topics for later and focus our attention on the deployment procedure.

So, this post continues the sequence about building a website with R software. Today I’ll make focus on the building procedure with the help of previously chosen solution: blogdown.

Site generation with blogdown

The procedure of building website with blogdown may be divided into several steps:

• Dependencies installation
• Theme choice and file-structure generation
• Building website

Installation

As it was stated before, the blogdown package uses Hugo backend to build websites. This means, that to make it work we should install both of them. Luckily, the blogdown package is able to install Hugo on its own, for this we can use the commands:

The idea to write this post (or rather a sequence of posts) appeared when I was attempting to deploy this website, mostly because of the difficulties I’ve encountered. So, today’s question is: how to deploy a simple static website with R?

First of all, we should start with distinguishing two main steps in website production:

1. Building website
2. Deploying the results on the web

These two topics may be rather long to explain, that’s why I’d rather prefer to separate this post into several parts.