Intro to Quarto’s Capabilities for Work and School
Intro to Quarto’s Capabilities for Work and School
Discover how Quarto, the open-source publishing framework that unifies code, narrative, and output, lets you turn analyses into polished reports, presentations, dashboards, and websites.
In this hands-on session (part of the Spring 2025 CCIDM Virtual Workshop Series), CCIDM faculty and MSDM students show step-by-step how to set up Quarto in RStudio, create documents with markdown and code chunks, and publish them on the web.
Whether you’re a student, researcher, or marketing professional, this workshop will help you replace scattered Word files with a single, reproducible workflow.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe how to do literate programming with Quarto
- Learn how to set up and use Quarto within the RStudio IDE
- List the various output formats of Quarto
- Describe how to render basic Quarto documents to the various popular document formats
- Create a document with basic markdown functions
- Explain the various platforms that host websites and reproducible documents
- Explain how Quarto can be used for work and school
Workshop Preparation:
Complete Code and Presentation Slides:
https://github.com/CCIDM/intro-to-quarto
Accessing R and RStudio:
To get the most out of this workshop, please ensure you have access to both R and RStudio. You can do this by either downloading and installing them to your computer or by setting up a free Posit Cloud account.
Options for Accessing R & RStudio:
- Posit Cloud (online option) - Get started here
- Install R & RStudio on Windows - Watch this tutorial
- Install R & RStudio on macOS - Watch this tutorial
Introduction to R & RStudio (Optional)
While not required, we encourage you to watch the following workshop beforehand if you can set aside an hour.