Cleanup & chores

[maehr]

Pull request

• Chore: update R and npm dependencies
• Feat: remove example projects
• Feat: basic setup information (fix README does not reflect setup #6)
• Feat: Readme update
• Feat: codespace settings added

Proposed changes

Types of changes

• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality).
• Enhancement (non-breaking change which enhances functionality)
• Bug Fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue).
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change).

Checklist

• I have read the README document.
• My change requires a change to the documentation.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.

[flicksolutions]

Sorry, I couldn't get quarto to run on my windows machine. It's not done by simple installing quarto as it says in the README.
Do you mind updating the readme so I can get it to run, then I can also do a proper code review.

[flicksolutions]

Just some minor windows comments, but I am approving this, since it's only on windows where we get problems and the canon way of developing the page will be Codespaces? :-)