Authors page

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#248 opened on May 1, 2021 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: r
Domain: content, web-dev

Research direction

Start by reviewing authors.Rmd and authors-raw.html, then check _site.yml and workflowr.yml to understand how the example page and sessioninfo setting are wired. Confirm the intended default authors-page behavior and whether sessioninfo should be configurable per page; done means the requested behavior and configuration scope are documented or implemented with a clear example.

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Description

I set up an authors page for a project of mine - maybe you find it useful as a default template.
It is a simple HTML gallery view.
It requires htmltools to render but I assume this could be required anyhow by {workflowr}?

To avoid clashes with the sessioninfo box, I turned it off for this example in workflowr.yml by setting sessioninfo: "". Is there a way to only turn if off for a single page?

Example screenshot

Setup

authors.Rmd

---
title: "Authors"
output:
  workflowr::wflow_html:
    toc: false
    toc_float: false
    theme: paper
workflowr:
  suppress_report: TRUE
editor_options:
  chunk_output_type: console
---

```{r, echo=FALSE}
htmltools::includeHTML("analysis/authors-raw.html")
```

authors-raw.html

<html>
<head>
<style>
div.gallery {
  margin: 5px;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  float: left;
  width: 180px;
}

div.gallery:hover {
  border: 1px solid #777;
}

div.gallery img {
  width: 100%;
  height: auto;
}

div.desc {
  padding: 15px;
  text-align: center;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div class="gallery">
  <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/jdblischak/workflowr">
    <img src="figure/authors/hex-workflowr.png" alt="workflowr">
  </a>
  <div class="desc">workflowr</div>
</div>
<div class="gallery">
  <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/jdblischak/workflowr">
    <img src="figure/authors/hex-workflowr.png" alt="workflowr">
  </a>
  <div class="desc">workflowr</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

And then a simple entry in _site.yml

  - text: Authors
    href: authors.html

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