It’s been a while since my last update. I’ve wanted to share a small project I’ve been working on over the past few months! As an avid cyclist, I love biking around Seattle, whether it’s heading to class, work, or just running errands. I live in Ballard near the Burke Gilman Trail, one of the flatter parts of Seattle, so I can often avoid Seattle’s notorious hills. While Seattle is great for biking compared to other cities, its bike infrastructure could definitely be improved.
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The first ever Cascadia R Conference is less than a month away in Portland, OR, and I am excited to be attending! On top of that, I am thrilled to say my lightning talk proposal, “Building a Personal Website with Blogdown and Github Pages” has been accepted. I’ll be talking about how I built this very website in RStudio using the blogdown package. As the blogdown package is quite new, people using other static site generators like Jekyll may not know much about it.
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For starters, I’m happy to say that I fixed the website build error I had mentioned in my first blog post. After plenty of head scratching, rereading the tutorial, and staring at my config.toml file, I finally realized I had a tiny typo in my publishDir file path, which prevented the documents from being copied to their new folder as expected. facepalm. I’m not sure how I managed to miss it the first time, but I’m glad to have it fixed now.
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