Intro to Quarto

Cascadia R Conf Workshop

9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Friday, June 21, 2024

Quarto is a publishing system for weaving together code and narrative to create fully reproducible documents, presentations, websites, and more. In this workshop, you’ll learn what you need to start authoring Quarto documents in RStudio. You do not need any prior experience with R Markdown, but if you have some, you’ll also get a few tips for transitioning to Quarto.

Knowledge Prerequisites: You should be comfortable opening, editing and navigating files in RStudio. You should have some experience with the R language, but no specific experience in any packages is required.

Pre-Installations: Recent version of R, RStudio, and Quarto CLI. R packages: tidyverse, gt, palmerpenguins, quarto. Detailed instructions at Pre-work.

Schedule

Time	Module
9:00 - 10:00	Hello Quarto
10:00 - 10:30	Documents: YAML + Markdown Basics
10:30 - 11:00	30 min break
11:00 - 11:50	Documents: Figures/Tables + Code
11:50 - 12:00	Wrap Up

Instructor

Charlotte Wickham is a Developer Educator at Posit with a focus on Quarto. Before Posit, she taught Statistics and Data Science at Oregon State University.

Acknowledgements

The materials for this workshop are adapted from the “From R Markdown to Quarto” ASA Traveling Workshop authored by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Andrew Bray. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.