Introduction

• Quarto is a command line interface tool, not an R package.

• Quarto unifies the functionality of many packages from the R Markdown ecosystem: rmarkdown, bookdown, distill, xaringan, etc. into a single consistent system.

• Quarto -> native support for multiple programming languages like Python and Julia in addition to R

• Documentation

• Quarto documents:

  • reproducible
  • support dozens of output formats: PDFs, Word files, presentations, and more.

• 3 main uses:

  1. Communication: focus on conclusions not code.
  2. Collaborating with other scientists (including future you!): conclusions and code.
  3. Environment in which to do data science.