Welcome

Thanks for visiting! I am very happy to start sharing some of my work in a place where someone besides me can actually see and read about it.

How I Built This Site

Big thanks to the brilliant tutorial written by Emily Zabor.

This site was built using blogdown, and if you are attempting to build a blogdown site you should definitely check out this amazing book.

I am currently using the Ghostwriter Hugo theme, hosted here.

I’d like to share a couple of tips, that I wish I had known when I started:

• Definitely make sure all of your software is up to date first. I had spent a few months away from R (mostly working in Java). With many errors and session crashes along the way, I eventually realized I needed to update R, RStudio, Chocolately, Hugo, and git.

• The tutorial linked above isn’t super clear about how to organize the source vs. yourname.github.io folders for a blogging site, but the Github Pages section of the blogdown book shows a much clearer diagram. Basically, after building a new site and importing your theme, everything will be in the yourname.github.io folder. You’ll want to move everything not in the “public” folder to a “source” folder on the same level as the yourname.github.io folder, and then move everything in the “public” folder up one level so it becomes the yourname.github.io folder.

• Make sure the following line is in your config.toml file and add if not:

  ignoreFiles = ["\\.Rmd$", "\\.Rmarkdown$", "_files$", "_cache$"]

That’s all for now. Until next time, may all your data be tidy, and your samples uniformly distributed.