1. Welcome to the Quarto Workshop

Welcome to the Quarto workshop, initially designed for LMU OSC Summer School 2023 and LMU & MPG Open Science Summer School 2024.

Structure and Workflow of the Workshop

This is a self-paced tutorial of about 2 hours (when skipping the advanced exercises) aimed at early-career researchers. It covers the absolute basics of the scientific and technical publishing system Quarto while using R in RStudio.

The workshop is structured in 5 consecutive parts, which you can navigate to at the top of the website, in the sidebar or using the arrows at the bottom of each page:

  1. Welcome to the Quarto Workshop (you are here now)
  2. Quarto Tutorials from the official Quarto project
  3. Tips and Comments from our own experiences of using Quarto
  4. Advanced Exercises that are more challenging than the beginner Quarto tutorials
  5. Links to further resources

The Quarto project provides well written tutorials (Quarto “Getting Started”) and online documentation (Quarto “Guide”). Instead of reinventing the wheel, we will heavily link to these resources (and complement them with our own comments and some advanced exercises).

What is Quarto?

The official Quarto website reads:

Quote:

An open-source scientific and technical publishing system

  • Author using Jupyter notebooks or with plain text markdown in your favorite editor.
  • Create dynamic content with Python, R, Julia, and Observable.
  • Publish reproducible, production quality articles, presentations, websites, blogs, and books in HTML, PDF, MS Word, ePub, and more.
  • Share knowledge and insights organization-wide by publishing to Posit Connect, Confluence, or other publishing systems.
  • Write using Pandoc markdown, including equations, citations, crossrefs, figure panels, callouts, advanced layout, and more.

Analyze. Share. Reproduce. You have a story to tell with data—tell it with Quarto.

These features make Quarto an extremely useful tool for researchers to:

  • write reproducible research reports, presentations or scientific articles
  • create personal of project websites
  • publish tutorials, textbooks, or other educational resources online
  • and much more…

If you have not seen many examples yourself, go to the official Quarto Gallery, the Quarto Blog, or have a look at the following presentation for a few examples, where we have used Quarto in our own work:

If you have attended the in-person workshop, you can download the result of the live coding example here:

Learn how to use Quarto yourself

When you have finished reading this short introduction and want to learn how to use Quarto for your own projects, go to the Quarto Tutorials page next. 💻 🙀