Quarto Overview

What is Quarto?

What is the purpose of Quarto (and it’s equivalent systems)?

  • How does Quarto improve reproducibility? What are some examples?

Basic syntax (generate a pdf)

  • A basic CV or “About me” document
  • Formatting: headings, lists, bold and italics
  • Embed an image, generate a table, headings, italics and bold face

Upgrading to a website

  • Minimal changes required due to Quarto’s cross-output capabilities
  • A website could: be an about page (your elevator pitch - an ideal pinned repo), a lab on-boarding page, or a walkthrough of a method with output (“showcasing your story”).

Preview and Render, git and Publishing

  • Practice practice practice! Theme, styles.
  • Publishing with github pages.

Setup on local machine

Quarto comes as a part of RStudio, so if you already have RStudio installed you don’t need to do anything extra for this part of the workshop.

However, there are lots of ways you can use and integrate Quarto into your preferred tool: