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Set Up an RStudio Project Locally

Explore how to set up an RStudio project locally to generate a website with the blogdown package and Hugo themes. Learn to configure themes, serve your website with live updates, and create new posts efficiently within RStudio. This lesson helps you build a testable and customizable personal website environment on your computer.

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Let’s generate a website

RStudio’s New Project Wizard makes it remarkably easy to generate blogdown websites that use the Hugo framework behind the scenes. The steps to create our website are as follows:

  • Launch RStudio and install the blogdown package by running install.packages("blogdown") in the R console.
  • Create a new RStudio Project by going to: File > New Project > New Directory > Website using blogdown.
  • Configure the website to the Hugo
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