Oppkey quarto demo for R Consortium Blog

https://oppkey.github.io/quarto/

Features

• R snippets rendered to chart automatically
• tidyverse example
• knitr example
• dygraphs
• LaTeX math output, using tinytex
• ggplot

Objectives

• show stakeholders that multiple Oppkey staff can edit the content and scale the volume of content if needed
• show we can handle acceptable styling, using R Consortium logos and colors
  • we need to edit the quarto themes
• illustrate that infrastructure can scale. Currently on GitHub Pages, but we can deploy to Netlify as an alternate example

How to Edit

• add new posts in the posts folder
• posts are rendered to docs folder
• push up to GitHub to publish to GitHub Pages

Notes

• Used R Studio on Windows 11 (not WSL) as I ran into problems with WSL and VS Code
• installed tidyverse through the R Studio interface
• Needed to install RTools for dygraphs
• quarto examples: https://quarto.org/docs/gallery/

Setup for Contributors

Install R using sudo apt-get install r-base and sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

Install R packages on Linux; type R in console and then install.packages('rmarkdown')

GGPLOT2 installation: install.packages("ggplot2")

dygraphs installation : install.packages("dygraphs")