Creating a Blog
This is my first blog entry. I am following the tutorials here:
https://ucsb-meds.github.io/creating-quarto-websites/#where-you-should-start-changing-stuff
https://samanthacsik.github.io/posts/2022-10-24-quarto-blogs/
Generally, this process has been a nightmare. The website is being created within RStudio, then pushed to GitHub and published through GitHub pages. As I’ve made changes per the tutorial, I have repeatedly been unable to push changes to GitHub due to a variety of fatal errors and merge conflicts. Since I’m only working in a single place I have no idea where all these merge conflicts are arising from. I don’t understand how I can have everything in sync everywhere, make a local change, commit it, and then be unable to push it. I’ve had to delete the GitHub repository at least half a dozen times and recreate it from my local version because I couldn’t find any way to fix the conflicts and fatal errors. I’m not sure whose fault this is (Quarto, GitHub or RStudio). It could be my fault, but I really don’t understand why things are breaking so spectacularly. I’ve used git/ GitHub for version control of R projects before and I’ve never had an error. (I don’t really see how you can get a merge conflict if you are the only person working on a project and you are only working at a single location, but maybe I’m failing to envision some use case.)
I decided to go with Quarto because it is now built-in to RStudio and the tutorials by Samantha Csik seemed very clear. (And to be fair, they are! Very easy to follow.) The tutorials I found for R Markdown to make a website seemed a little more involved and a little more kludgey.
Couldn’t have done it without the best helper turtle in the world. Mac took a lot of executive naps to work on the problem.
Citation
@online{sinks2023,
author = {Sinks, Louise E.},
title = {Creating a {Blog}},
date = {2023-03-14},
url = {https://lsinks.github.io/posts/2023-03-14-tester-post/},
langid = {en}
}