29.8 Websites and books

• With a bit of additional infrastructure, you can use Quarto to generate a complete website or book:

  • Put your .qmd files in a single directory. index.qmd will become the home page.

  • Add a YAML file named _quarto.yml that provides the navigation for the site. In this file, set the project type to either book or website, e.g.:

project:
  type: book

• Read more at https://quarto.org/docs/websites about Quarto websites and https://quarto.org/docs/books about books.

• Note: R4DS 2E is itself a quarto book. You can find the code to render it on your own here: https://github.com/hadley/r4ds/. The Quarto website itself was made with Quarto. You can find the code here: https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-web.