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Extensions

Extensions are a powerful way to modify and extend the behavior of Quarto. You can find the complete list here. Below, a small selection of extensions that impressed us

Scientific Paper#

The quarto community offers templates for famous scientific journals such as : - ACM - ACS - Biophysical - Elsevier - PLOS - ...

Below, the visualisation of PLOS template :

Molstar#

This extension provides shortcodes for molstar in quarto. Molstar can display macro-molecules such as proteins as well as molcular dynamics trajectories in an interactive viewer. You can see it in action e.g. in the RCSB Protein Data Base: https://www.rcsb.org/, where it provides the 3d view for entries. Follow me, if you want this right in your quarto reports (html only).

And also#

  • Quarto extension for INRAE : https://github.com/davidcarayon/quarto-inrae-extension
  • Filter to include code from source file : https://github.com/quarto-ext/include-code-files
  • Embed WebR in HTML documents to enable interactive R code cells without the need for an R server : https://github.com/coatless/quarto-webr
  • ...

Quick recap

In this section, you discover the extent of the quarto extensions.