R is for
Authoring!!

OOH Session #131…
…let’s make a website!!

Open Office Hours
(May 26, 2026)

• Recap session #130
• Today’s topic(s):
  • …let’s make a website!!
• Shared problem-solving

Reminder – check it out!!

Fantastic resource!!

Recap of Session
#130:

Shortcodes!!

• whazzat
• pre–built
• build–your–own

{{< ... >}} structured markdown shortcuts for (potentially more complicated) content

shortcode:	description:	rendered:
{{< meta title >}}	title as specified in YAML	R is for Authoring!!
{{< version >}}	Quarto version	1.9.37
{{< placeholder >}}	placeholder image

At terminal, type quarto create extension shortcode

• do this within a project directory
• capability is specified within name.lua file

Default .lua function:

return {
  ['shorty'] = function(args, kwargs, meta) 
    return pandoc.Str("Hello from Shorty!")
  end
}

Today…

…let’s make a website!!

& Session Info (May 26, 2026) Rendering:

R version 4.5.0 (2025-04-11 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)

Matrix products: default
  LAPACK version 3.12.1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    

time zone: America/Chicago
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] compiler_4.5.0    fastmap_1.2.0     cli_3.6.5         tools_4.5.0      
 [5] htmltools_0.5.9   otel_0.2.0        rstudioapi_0.18.0 yaml_2.3.12      
 [9] rmarkdown_2.31    knitr_1.51        jsonlite_2.0.0    xfun_0.57        
[13] digest_0.6.39     rlang_1.1.7       evaluate_1.0.5   

Quarto version 1.9.37