Hello Quarto

A World of Possibilities (for Reproducible Publishing)

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

2023-04-07

What is Quarto?

Quarto …

• is a new, open-source, scientific, and technical publishing system
• aims to make the process of creating and collaborating dramatically better

Artwork from “Hello, Quarto” keynote by Julia Lowndes and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, presented at RStudio Conference 2022. Illustrated by Allison Horst.

Quarto …

unifies + extends the R Markdown ecosystem

Quarto …

unifies + extends the R Markdown ecosystem

unifies for people who love R Markdown

Quarto …

unifies + extends the R Markdown ecosystem

unifies for people who love R Markdown

extends for people who don’t know R Markdown

Quarto unifies + extends R Markdown

• Consistent implementation of attractive and handy features across outputs: tabsets, code-folding, syntax highlighting, etc.
• More accessible defaults as well as better support for accessibility
• Guardrails, particularly helpful for new learners: YAML completion, informative syntax errors, etc.
• Support for other languages like Python, Julia, Observable, and more via Jupyter engine for executable code chunks.

Quarto in action

Demo

If you’d like to follow along, go to

https://github.com/mine-cetinkaya-rundel/quarto-niss

and clone the repo to get started

Your turn!

• Go to https://github.com/quarto-journals/jasa

• Follow the instructions under Creating a new article

• Add your author details and render the document

• Add a citation and re-render

15:00

Parting remarks

Quarto CLI…

orchestrates each step of rendering

Artwork from “Hello, Quarto” keynote by Julia Lowndes and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, presented at RStudio Conference 2022. Illustrated by Allison Horst.

Learning more

https://quarto.org

Look forward to

Quarto 1.3! https://quarto.org/docs/prerelease/1.3/

Follow up with…

the Quarto Blog: https://quarto.org/docs/blog

Thank you!

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