What is Quarto

John Little

May 23, 2023

Define

Quarto

• Open-source publishing system

• Leveraged by multiple coding languages (Python, R, Julia, ObservableJS)

• Supported by multiple IDEs (VS Code, Jupyter, RStudio, Neovim)

• Can publish to multiple hosting targets (QuartoPub | GitHub Pages | Posit Connect | Netlify | Others)

Notable

Everything I’m going to show you was coded with open-source tools and published via Quarto

Tidyverse

I’m going to use RStudio and freely publish to Quarto.pub

• Quarto further develops the workflow of reproducible computation by extending markdown and literate coding workflows

In much the same way that Tidyverse brings consistency and good documentation to base-R, and Tidymodels brings consistency and good documentation to modeling and ML, Quarto brings consistency and good documentation to reproducibility (i.e. [literate] coding.)

Reproducibility Payoff

Reproducible workflows for computation thinking

data → analysis → publishing

• Do everything with code

• Derive reports from code

Quarto reports can be PDF, MSWord, Slides (PPTx, revealjs, etc.), Websites, Dashboards, eBooks, Blogs, Interactivity apps (ObservableJS; Shiny; more)

Citations, Tables, Figures, and Scientific Notation

• Quarto will generate citations and a bibliography in multiple styles

  • Can integrate with DOI/Zotero/.bib/.bibtex/Endnote …

• Quarto generates numbering for tables and figures

• Excellent support for LaTeX equations and citations

Review

Quarto helps you derive reports from code and facilitates publishing to your favorite host

Note:

Unlike many other tools, Quarto is open, does not lock-in to a proprietary host. You render Quarto reports that can be hosted anywhere, anytime. Quarto is about scholarly [scientific] communication.

Resources

• Mine - YouTube

• Mock - YouTube

• Quarto Docs

  • get started

  • guides

  • reference

  • gallery

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Next: Code as you like

Getting started

File > New file > Quarto Presentation

Resources

• Quarto Guides

  • User guide (columns, fig captions,

  • Quarto Presentation Basics

  • Revealjs (HTML)

• Quarto reference documentation

  • Revealjs

• Columns

• Fig captions

Get started with Quarto presentation slides

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