Where to go from here?

You have now seen the basics of using Quarto for creating documents. Quarto is a relatively new product from posit (the group behind RStudio) and there are regular, exciting updates on the project. While we have only given a brief introduction here, there are many excellent examples and resources available online to take you further with Quarto.

The key resource is the Quarto website. If you have completed everything in this workshop then you may want to skip to the Guide tab, or use the Get Started tab to introduce you to using Quarto in a different tool (e.g., VSCode instead of RStudio).

The posit::conf(2023) YouTube playlist has recordings from 14 talks (!!!) that mention Quarto, and in 2024 the conference organisers created a specific Quarto playlist. If nothing else, this should show you how important the community things Quarto is for bioinformatics. Key examples I can recommend include talks on automated reporting and scrollytelling.

The R4DS 2nd edition book was published using Quarto. Hadley Wickham’s github repo includes the raw .qmd files and is an excellent resource.