R Quarto Tutorial — How To Create Interactive Markdown Documents
Want to take R Markdown to new heights? Try R Quarto — an interactive and production-ready Markdown language.
R Quarto is a next-gen version of R Markdown. The best thing is — it’s not limited to R programming language. It’s also available in Python, Julia, and Observable. In this R Quarto tutorial, we’ll stick with the most popular statistical language and create Markdown documents directly in RStudio.
With Quarto, you can easily create high-quality articles, reports, presentations, PDFs, books, Word documents, ePubs, and even entire websites. For example, the entire Hands-On Programming with R book by Garrett Grolemund is written in Quarto. Talk about scalability!
We’ll kick off today’s article by installing and configuring Quarto, and then we’ll dive into the good stuff.
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How to Get Started with R Quarto
First things first, head over to their website and hit the big blue “Get Started” button. You’ll be presented with the following screen:
