Whilst working on the blog guide, Stefanie Butland and I consolidated knowledge we had already gained, but it was also the opportunity to up our Rmd/Hugo technical game.Our website uses Hugo but not blogdown ¹ to render posts: every post is based on an .md file that is either written directly or knit from an .Rmd file.We wanted to provide clear guidance for both options, and to stick to the well-documented Hugo way of e.g. inserting

Why vitae? The vitae package leverages the dynamic nature of R Markdown to quickly produce and update CV entries from a variety of data sources. With use of the included templates, examples and helper functions, it should be possible to produce a reasonable looking and data-driven CV in less than an hour. Based on the twitter community’s response to the package announcement, CV maintenance is just as unenjoyable for others as it is for me!

Icons in R Icons can be added to your R Markdown documents using short prefixes which identify the font’s library. fa: Font Awesome ai: Academicons ii: ionicons For example, `r icon::fa("rocket")` can be used to add the rocket icon from Font Awesome. This interface is convenient if you are familiar with the icon you want, or if you are dynamically selecting your icon.