Creating Academic Personal Websites

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FROHBURGSTRASSE 3

P.O.BOX 4466

6002 LUCERNE

Tutor

Stefan Müller, University College Dublin

Organization

Digital Skills, University of Lucerne

Language

English

ECTS-Points

Contact

Content

Creating Academic Personal Websites using RMarkdown and GitHub

This workshop introduces participants to R, RMarkdown, Blogdown, and

GitHub to create and host a personal (academic) website. The workshop

combines input presentations from the course instructors and interactive

exercises, and consists of three parts.

DAY 1

Part I: A Short Introduction to R (4 hours)

The first part of the workshop provides a concise introduction to R for

absolute beginners. We will cover basic operations and objects, how to

create an R project, how to save R scripts, how to run code reproducibly,

and how to import and visualise data. Participants without prior knowledge

of R or RStudio need to participate in this part workshop, while this short

introduction to R is not mandatory for advanced R users.

Part II: An Introduction to RMarkdown, Git and GitHub (4 hours)

Transparent research practices and the reproducibility of results are highly

relevant for all academic projects. A reproducible workflow is fundamental to

keep track of progress and changes. RMarkdown, Git, and GitHub are

popular tools for setting up a reproducible workflow for research projects. In

this session, we will create reproducible reports in RMarkdown, and how to

use Git and GitHub to set up a reproducible workflow and implement

version control. In addition, this part of the workshop will briefly outline how

users can host and update a website.

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DAY 2

Part III: Creating and Hosting an Academic Website (4 hours)

In the last interactive part of the workshop, participants will learn how to set

up their academic website using Blogdown, Hugo templates, and GitHub.

After outlining the main features required for a professional academic

website, the course presents step-by-step instructions for creating such a

website. After completing the workshop, participants have the skills

necessary to set up their website.