Intro to Quarto’s Capabilities for Work and School

Overview

This session introduces Quarto as an open-source publishing framework that unifies code, narrative, and output to transform analyses into polished reports, presentations, dashboards, and websites. CCIDM faculty and MSDM students provide step-by-step guidance on Quarto setup in RStudio, markdown document creation with code chunks, and web publishing.

Learning Outcomes

• Describe literate programming with Quarto.
• Set up and use Quarto within the RStudio IDE.
• List various Quarto output formats.
• Render basic Quarto documents to popular document formats.
• Create documents with basic markdown functions.
• Explain platforms that host websites and reproducible documents.

Key Skills Gained

• Literate Programming Foundations
• Quarto Setup & Configuration
• Markdown & Code Chunk Usage
• Multi-format Rendering
• Document Publishing