To deploy a Quarto website to GitHub using the usethis package in RStudio on Ubuntu 20.04, follow these steps:
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Install Required Packages: Ensure you have the
usethisandquartopackages installed. You can install them using the following commands in RStudio:install.packages("usethis") install.packages("quarto") -
Create a New Quarto Project: Create a new Quarto project in RStudio. You can do this by navigating to
File>New Project>New Directory>Quarto Website. -
Initialize Git: Initialize a Git repository in your project directory:
usethis::use_git() -
Create a GitHub Repository: Use
usethisto create a GitHub repository and link it to your local project:usethis::use_github() -
Configure Quarto for GitHub Pages: Modify your
_quarto.ymlfile to specify the output directory asdocs:project: type: website output-dir: docs -
Add .nojekyll File: Add a
.nojekyllfile to the root of your repository to prevent GitHub Pages from processing your site with Jekyll:touch .nojekyll -
Render and Deploy Your Site: Render your Quarto site and push the changes to GitHub:
quarto render git add docs git commit -m "Publish site to docs/" git push -
Configure GitHub Pages: Go to your GitHub repository settings and configure GitHub Pages to publish from the
docsdirectory of themainbranch.