posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Introduction to Quarto with R + RStudio
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Andrew Bray Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop This course is for you if you: • have a basic knowledge of how to use the RStudio IDE • have some familiarity with markdown, or • are excited to author flexible single documents like technical reports and slide presentations Seasoned users of R Markdown will get more out of the Advanced Quarto with R and RStudio: Projects, Websites, Books, and More workshop, which is focused on projects, a distinct strength of Quarto in authoring work that spans multiple documents. This workshop will prepare you to author a rich array of documents in Quarto, the next generation of R Markdown. Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system that offers multilingual programming language support to create dynamic and static documents, books, presentations, blogs, and other online resources. The focus for this workshop will be on single documents. You will learn to create static documents, to add interactivity to them with Shiny and htmlwidgets, or steer them in the direction of sophisticated scientific documents. In the afternoon you’ll take the same authoring approaches to create slide presentations in various formats such as reveal.js, beamer, and pptx
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Hi, my name is Andrew Bray, and I'm an Associate Teaching Professor in Statistics at UC Berkeley. I'd like to tell you my top three reasons why you should take the Introduction to Quarto Workshop at PositConf.
Number one, feel the flexibility. One of the things I love about Quarto is how flexible it is. Authoring a document always feels the same. I'm typing into a simple text file, but when I go to render it, I could make a PDF file or Word document or an HTML file or a slide presentation. What's more, if there's code in that document, it could be R code or Shiny or Python or Julia. In this workshop, you'll get to feel that flexibility. At the end of the day, you'll produce a broad range of polished documents, and you'll emerge with a big picture view of everything that's possible with Quarto.
At the end of the day, you'll produce a broad range of polished documents, and you'll emerge with a big picture view of everything that's possible with Quarto.
Reason number two, a guide through the docs. If you've started tinkering around with Quarto, you've probably discovered that there's extensive documentation available at quarto.org. But if you're just getting started, this can be pretty overwhelming. In this workshop, you're getting a curated guide through the vast functionality of Quarto. In the morning, we'll start off with a single static document, and then we'll add functionality bit by bit until we have something quite sophisticated. In the afternoon, we'll shift our focus to putting together a beautiful slide presentation.
Reason number three, live coding. Something that many of the workshops at Positive Comp share is the practice of live coding. This means that in addition to using slides, I'll be projecting my RStudio session so you can see me code up a Quarto document live. This is helpful because in addition to getting to see the syntax, you're also getting to see the workflow of authoring a Quarto document. And when errors pop up, because they will pop up, you'll get to see somebody else's approach to getting unstuck.
So if you're ready to dive into everything you can do with Quarto, please join us at the workshop in Chicago. We hope to see you there.
