Getting Started with Quarto

Pre Work

• Install latest version of RStudio, v2022.07.1 or later

• For ALL hands-on materials, please clone https://github.com/jthomasmock/quarto-workshop.git via RStudio

• Alternatively, you can use RStudio Cloud which has the workshop materials pre-installed: https://rstudio.cloud/content/4332583

• Install these R packages:

pkg_list <- c(
  "tidyverse", "gt", "gtExtras", "reactable", 
  "ggiraph",  "here", "quarto", "rmarkdown", 
  "gtsummary", "palmerpenguins", "fs", "skimr"
  )
install.packages(pkg_list)

How to clone a Github repo

1. Navigate to https://github.com/jthomasmock/quarto-workshop

2. Click on the green “Code” button and copy the url under the HTTPS tab https://github.com/jthomasmock/quarto-workshop.git

3. In RStudio, use File > New Project > Version Control > From Git > and then paste the URL into the source repo box and then click enter!

Overview

This workshop is designed for those who have no or little prior experience with Quarto. Quarto is the next generation of RMarkdown for publishing, including dynamic and static documents and multi-lingual programming language support. With Quarto you can create documents, books, presentations, blogs or other online resources.

Schedule

Activity
Intro to Quarto
Authoring Quarto
Plots and Tables
Static Documents

Instructor

Tom Mock, PhD is the Customer Enablement Lead at RStudio, helping RStudio’s customers be as successful as possible. He is deeply involved in the global data science community, sharing tips on #RStats Twitter (find him at @thomas_mock), as co-founder of #TidyTuesday, a weekly Data Science learning challenge, and presenting on various Data Science topics on YouTube or at conferences.

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