Post45 Data Collective Website

https://data.post45.org/

This is the website for the Post45 Data Collective, which uses Quarto, the R DT library, and the JavaScript Tabulator library.

Benefits of Quarto include: publication-quality, citeable articles and references that can be recognized by Google Scholar; easy integration with code such as data tables; articles that are created with Markdown, which can ease the publication pipeline by preserving formatting and links from submitted Word Documents and Google Docs; entirely free and open-source tools.

Setup

Prerequisites

1. Install R (version 4.3 or higher recommended)

   • Download from CRAN

2. Install Quarto

   • Download from quarto.org

3. Install a code editor (optional but recommended)

   • RStudio: Download from posit.co
   • VS Code: Download from code.visualstudio.com
     • Install the Quarto extension for VS Code

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/your-username/Post45-Website-Quarto.git
cd website

2. Install R packages:

Open R or RStudio and run:

# Install renv if you don't have it
install.packages("renv")

# Restore all required R packages (including dplyr, knitr, rmarkdown, etc.)
renv::restore()

If using the command line, type R to open the R console, run the commands above, then type q() to quit R.

This will install all the R packages specified in renv.lock, ensuring you have the exact same dependencies as the project requires.

Running the Site

To preview the website locally:

Option 1: Command line

quarto preview

Option 2: VS Code

• Open a .qmd file and click the "Preview" button in the top right corner of the editor

To render the site:

quarto render