Introduction

Another notebook? But why? We have already seen R markdown and Jupyter. That's true, but Quarto is the new kid on the block and it's already getting a lot of attention!

Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system where authors :

• Can use Jupyter notebooks or with plain text markdown in your favorite editor.
• Create dynamic content with Python, R, Julia, and Observable.
• Publish reproducible, production quality articles, presentations, websites, blogs, and books in HTML, PDF, MS Word, ePub, and more.
• Share results in a lot of publishing systems like GitHub.

His goal ? Unify and extend the R Markdown ecosystem by

1. unifing R Markdown fans
2. extending the ecosystem to those who don't know R Markdown

In addition, Quarto presents itself as the new open-source system for publishing scientific and technical articles with the aim of making the process of creating and collaboration process radically simpler

Quarto highlights#

During the Rstudio Conf 2022, Quarto was presented with the following 4 highlights:

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

The original presentation is here

One to rule them all#

Quarto CLI orchestrates each step of rendering

This tutorial depends on files from the course GitHub repo. Take a look at the setup for instructions on how to set it up if you haven't done so already. As a reminder, go here and download the last version of Quarto.