The master branch contains also the github page published here.
You can make an empty start by cloning the plain branch:
git clone --single-branch --branch plain https://github.com/bdcaf/r-hugo-papercss-template.git
Many actions are run as make actions.
You can do to all actions doing
make setup
the contents of docs/ is deleted before building the site.
If this is not done no longer used files will build up in there.
Should you need to keep files put them in the static directory.
I dislike the way hugo truncates posts automatically for summary.
Manually truncating by placing <!–more–> assures the head is rendered nicely. For short posts one can just put it at the and assure they are rendered fully.