Introduction to Quarto course

Quarto was released in 2022 as the next generation for RMarkdown for everyone as it can be used equally by R users as well as Python which renders plain text formats (quarto .qmd, RMarkdown .rmd, markdown .md) or mixed formats (.ipynb/Jupyter notebook) into static PDF/Word/HTML reports, books, websites, presentations and more.

The course will be run over two half days and is aimed at analysts who are familiar with R and RStudio, perhaps having completed the Introduction to R and RStudio training through the NHS-R Community. The format of the course follows the outline that was originally created for RMarkdown and can be used as a reference to work between the two reporting tools.

Learning outcomes

• Understand the benefits and uses of Quarto through the Terminal and the package {quarto}

Detailed Programme

Session 1:

• Getting set up
• What’s inside?
  
• Text
• Images
• Code chunks

Session 2:

• Inline code
• Tabs
• Output Formats
• Parameters
• Command Line
• Loop reports
• Extras

Prerequisites

The material is pitched at analysts with at least beginner level of R.

Duration

2 half days (3.5 hours each day)

Course materials

Slides will be published through GitHub.