Introduction to Nonprofits

PMAP 3210 • Fall 2022
Andrew Heiss • Andrew Young School of Policy Studies • Georgia State University

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Quarto + {targets} + {renv} + {xaringan} = magic! 🪄

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How to build the site

1. Install RStudio version 2022.07.1 or later since it has a Quarto installation embedded in it. Otherwise, download and install Quarto separately.
2. Open nonprofitf22.Rproj to open an RStudio Project.
3. If it’s not installed already, R should try to install the {renv} package when you open the RStudio Project for the first time. If you don’t see a message about package installation, install it yourself by running install.packages("renv") in the R console.
4. Run renv::restore() in the R console to install all the required packages for this project.
5. Run targets::tar_make() in the R console to build everything.
6. 🎉 All done! 🎉 The complete website will be in a folder named _site/.

{targets} pipeline

I use the {targets} package to build this site and all its supporting files. The complete pipeline is defined in _targets.R and can be run in the R console with:

targets::tar_make()

The pipeline does several major tasks:

• Render xaringan slides to HTML and PDF: Quarto supports HTML-based slideshows through reveal.js. However, I created all my slides using {xaringan}, which is based on remark.js and doesn’t work with Quarto. Since I don’t have time to recreate my fancy template in reveal.js right now, I want to keep using {xaringan}.

  The pipeline dynamically generates targets for all the .Rmd files in /slides/ and renders them using R Markdown rather than Quarto.

  The pipeline then uses {renderthis} to convert each set of HTML slides into PDFs.

• Build Quarto website: This project is a Quarto website, which compiles and stitches together all the .qmd files in this project based on the settings in _quarto.yml. See the Quarto website documentation for more details.

• Upload resulting _site/ folder to my remote server: Quarto places the compiled website in a folder named /_site/. The pipeline uses rsync to upload this folder to my personal remote server. This target will only run if the UPLOAD_WEBSITES environment variable is set to TRUE, and it will only work if you have an SSH key set up on my personal server, which only I do.

The complete pipeline looks like this:

(This uses mermaid.js syntax and should display as a graph on GitHub. You can also view it by pasting the code into https://mermaid.live.)

graph LR
  subgraph Graph
    x9c20b8c56debbe9a(["deploy_script"]):::queued --> x78f3e0b711425f1c(["deploy_site"]):::queued
    x7aa56383a054e8ba(["site"]):::queued --> x78f3e0b711425f1c(["deploy_site"]):::queued
    x4a210bdf90796bca(["xaringan_files_files"]):::queued --> xf4774655f169db90["xaringan_files"]:::queued
    x4d31f5a49d5ae49f(["schedule_ical_file"]):::queued --> x7aa56383a054e8ba(["site"]):::queued
    x063edd335cc1b36f(["schedule_page_data"]):::queued --> x7aa56383a054e8ba(["site"]):::queued
    xccbb2c85646c611a["xaringan_pdfs"]:::queued --> x7aa56383a054e8ba(["site"]):::queued
    x60c212b45249134a["xaringan_slides"]:::queued --> x7aa56383a054e8ba(["site"]):::queued
    xf38d3f5e6365ad72(["workflow_graph"]):::started --> x6e52cb0f1668cc22(["readme"]):::queued
    x0751853b619def05["xaringan_html_files"]:::queued --> xccbb2c85646c611a["xaringan_pdfs"]:::queued
    xdf832f8e1f99baf2(["schedule_file"]):::queued --> x063edd335cc1b36f(["schedule_page_data"]):::queued
    xf4774655f169db90["xaringan_files"]:::queued --> x60c212b45249134a["xaringan_slides"]:::queued
    xdf832f8e1f99baf2(["schedule_file"]):::queued --> x35552a73efe9c59f(["schedule_ical_data"]):::queued
    x7a0d40becb063bda(["xaringan_html_files_files"]):::queued --> x0751853b619def05["xaringan_html_files"]:::queued
    x35552a73efe9c59f(["schedule_ical_data"]):::queued --> x4d31f5a49d5ae49f(["schedule_ical_file"]):::queued
    x60c212b45249134a["xaringan_slides"]:::queued --> x7a0d40becb063bda(["xaringan_html_files_files"]):::queued
  end

Licenses

Text and figures: All prose and images are licensed under Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC 4.0)

Code: All code is licensed under the MIT License.