# data_home_sidebar() works by default
Code
cat(data_home_sidebar(pkg))
Output
<div class='license'>
<h2 data-toc-skip>License</h2>
<ul class='list-unstyled'>
<li><a href='https://www.r-project.org/Licenses/GPL-3'>GPL-3</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class='citation'>
<h2 data-toc-skip>Citation</h2>
<ul class='list-unstyled'>
<li><a href='authors.html#citation'>Citing testpackage</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class='developers'>
<h2 data-toc-skip>Developers</h2>
<ul class='list-unstyled'>
<li>Hadley Wickham <br />
<small class = 'roles'> Author, maintainer </small> </li>
<li>RStudio <br />
<small class = 'roles'> Copyright holder, funder </small> </li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class='dev-status'>
<h2 data-toc-skip>Dev Status</h2>
<ul class='list-unstyled'>
<li>placeholder</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div class="developers">
<h2 data-toc-skip>Developers</h2>
<ul class="list-unstyled">
<li>Hadley Wickham <br><small class="roles"> Author, maintainer </small> </li>
<li>RStudio <br><small class="roles"> Copyright holder, funder </small> </li>
<li><a href="authors.html">More about authors...</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
# data_home_sidebar() errors well when no HTML file
Can't find file 'file.html' specified by home.sidebar.html in '_pkgdown.yml'.
# data_home_sidebar() can get a custom markdown formatted component
<div class="fancy-section">
<h2 data-toc-skip>Fancy section</h2>
<ul class="list-unstyled">
<li><p>How <em>cool</em> is pkgdown?!</p></li>
</ul>
</div>
# data_home_sidebar() can add a README
<div class="table-of-contents">
<h2 data-toc-skip>Table of contents</h2>
<ul class="list-unstyled">
<li><nav id="toc"></nav></li>
</ul>
</div>
# data_home_sidebar() outputs informative error messages
Can't find component home.sidebar.components.fancy in '_pkgdown.yml'.
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Can't find components home.sidebar.components.fancy, home.sidebar.components.cool in '_pkgdown.yml'.
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Can't find component home.sidebar.components.fancy.title in '_pkgdown.yml'.
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Can't find components home.sidebar.components.fancy.title, home.sidebar.components.fancy.text in '_pkgdown.yml'.
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