## Adding new content (news, people, publications, research areas)
To add new content, it is best to work with a clone of the github repository. There are many ways to work with Quarto and a common one is using RStudio. [Here](https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/hello/rstudio.html) you can get instructions to get started. The basic steps are:
1. Install RStudio.
2. Be sure that you have installed the tidyverse and palmerpenguins packages:
```
install.packages("tidyverse")
install.packages("palmerpenguins")
```
3. Open a .qmd file with RStudio.
4. Make the needed updates.
5. Test the changes by running from the button "Render" or with the command in the Console:
```
quarto::quarto_preview()
```
6. Commit to the Git repository.
The easiest approach for adding new content for news, people, publications and research areas is to duplicate the folder of an existing element, rename it, and modify its contents as needed.
As long as the keys in the new .qmd file remain unchanged and only the values are modified, the element will be read correctly.
For example when adding a new person, we would need to update these elements:
- **Title, Last, First, and Author ID**: Update with the new person's full name and unique identifier. The unique identifier should be the same used in the authors list of publications.
