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ecoquants / findinghal

white abalone recovery & community engagement
http://findinghal.org
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initiate Rmarkdown website #2

Closed bbest closed 3 years ago

bbest commented 3 years ago
  1. Create Rmd website following 10.5 rmarkdown’s site generator | R Markdown: The Definitive Guide
  2. In _site.yml set output directory to same as input .Rmd so get .html in root folder (vs default of _site/): 
    output_dir: '.'
  3. Create .nojekyll file (content free) to turn off Jekyll rendering (like we currently have for README.md), which speeds up time b/n commit-push and seeing website updated
mspector13 commented 3 years ago

Hey @bbest,

I created a _site.yml, index.Rmd, and about.Rmd files for our site, woohoo! I added the output_dir: '.' to _site.yml but I'm not sure if the line-spacing was conserved.

Also, I assume that the .nojekyll file should be a plain-text file, right? When I tried to save a blank text file as ".nojekyll" I got the following error message from RStudio:

Names that begin with a dot “.” are reserved for the system. If you decide to go ahead and use a name which begins with a dot the file will be hidden.

To make sure this blank file didn't disapepar, I named it content.nojekyll What did I mess up?

bbest commented 3 years ago

Hi @mspector13,

In commit https://github.com/ecoquants/findinghal/commit/2004c85da8c6cf86f8585c0f7a18de71faa1a4f8, I just removed _Finding_Hal_site/ and used the Build website button to generate *.html into . per _site.yml.

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That warning message about the "." for .nojekyll is fine.