Data Ignota: Hello World

Mathieu Glachant

It’s time to stand up a little website to share the results of my explorations into “data ignota”, the digital edition I’ve been creating of Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series. This is that website.

Since the ship I’ve launched on that digital ocean is built from R, it makes sense to build this site from the same timber. After some research, I’ve decided to use the distill package as the primary tool, and to publish via Github Pages.

What It Took to Get Here

Create public repo at: https://github.com/syvwlch/Data-Ignota
Clone repo to R project (using Github Desktop, not R studio)
Create Distill blog within project
Add/update content
Build site & preview locally
Push to github
Setup github pages
Site is up at: https://syvwlch.github.io/Data-Ignota/
Add base_url: key to site.yml (used for RSS feed and share cards)

Lessons Learned

Always Be Knitting (your posts)

The distill package automatically builds web pages except for posts like this one. This is done to keep the build fast and to protect posts which might have dependencies from breaking later. So for posts it’s not enough to hit save, you have to reknit them on purpose.

Corrections

If you see mistakes or want to suggest changes, please create an issue on the source repository.

Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as

Glachant (2022, Sept. 30). Data Ignota: Hello World. Retrieved from https://syvwlch.github.io/Data-Ignota/posts/2022-09-30-hello-world/

BibTeX citation

@misc{glachant2022hello,
  author = {Glachant, Mathieu},
  title = {Data Ignota: Hello World},
  url = {https://syvwlch.github.io/Data-Ignota/posts/2022-09-30-hello-world/},
  year = {2022}
}