Some benefits

✔️ Another way to practice your communication skills

✔️ Exchange knowledge with colleagues and expansion of your networking

✔️ Sharing ideas and experiences can be useful for the community

✔️ A platform to connect with the world.

Building a website

Blogdown + Hugo

├── config.toml       <- Metadata of the website
📂── config/default
   ├── menus.toml     
   ├── params.toml    
   └── languages.toml
📁── content
📁── themesCopy Code

• params.toml: colour theme, font size, contact details (email, working address, twitter, GitHub, ResearchGate).

• menus.toml: Navigation menu bar

• languages.toml: language setting

In languages.toml

[en]
  languageCode = "en-us"
  contentDir = "content/en"  # Uncomment for multi-lingual sites,and move English content into `en` sub-folder.
  title = "English site"
# Uncomment the lines below to configure your website in a second language.
[es]
 languageCode = "es"
 contentDir = "content/es"
  title = "Sitio en español"
  [es.params]
   description = "Sitio en español"
  [[es.menu.main]]
    name = "es"
    url = "#about"
    weight = 1Copy Code

Rename menus.toml

📁── config/default
   ├── menus.es.toml     <- For spanish
   ├── menus.en.toml     <- For english
   ├── params.toml    
   └── language.tomlCopy Code

Create one folder for each language

📂── content
   ├── 📂- es     <- For spanish
   ├── 📂- en     <- For englishCopy Code

Choose the default language

In config.toml

For spanish website default: defaultContentLanguage = “es"

To show that the personal website is multilingual, check in params.toml and verify that show_language= TRUE

Building a website

Hugo version

Put netlify.toml in your project root directory and specify the Hugo version used.

blogdown::hugo_version()
## [1] '0.78.1'Copy Code

And the netlify.toml must be like this:

[build.environment]
  HUGO_VERSION = "0.78.1" #Here is the hugo version
  HUGO_ENABLEGITINFO = "true"Copy Code

In Netlify

New site from Git > GitHub

In Netlify

In Show advanced write the Hugo version.

In the latest version of Blogdown

Set the Hugo version

library(blogdown)
hugo_version()
## [1] '0.78.1'Copy Code

config_Rprofile() #set the HUGO VERSIONCopy Code

Tell to Netlify

config_netlify()Copy Code

Learn more:

• blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown Yihui Xie, Amber Thomas, Alison Presmanes Hill

• The Download Alison Presmanes Hill

• A Spoonful of Hugo: How much Hugo do I need to know? Alison Presmanes Hill

• Language abbreviations

• ¿Porqué necesitas tener una página web personal? (and English version)

• Creando una página web bilingüe con R (and English version)