Charlotte Wickham

Quarto

Open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc

dplyr

dplyr: A grammar of data manipulation

ggplot2

An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R

usethis

Set up commonly used components

rvest

Simple web scraping for R

brand-yml

Unified branding with a single YAML file

scales

Tools for ggplot2 scales

httr

httr: a friendly http package for R

cheatsheets

Posit Cheat Sheets - Can also be found at https://posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/

rticles

LaTeX Journal Article Templates for R Markdown

reprex

Render bits of R code for sharing, e.g., on GitHub or StackOverflow

education.rstudio.com

posit::conf(2025) Quarto workshop materials

At posit::conf(2025) we hosted two Quarto workshops: Branded Websites, Presentations, Dashboards, and PDFs with Quarto; and Extending Quarto. The materials from both workshops are freely available for anyone to learn from or use in their own teaching

Charlotte Wickham

Quarto 1.8

Quarto 1.8 improves brand support, introduces brand extensions, adds HTML accessibility checks, and gives access to execution context

Charlotte Wickham

Create a Quarto Document in Positron (Python Example)

Watch Charlotte Wickham's Positron Quarto tutorial to see the full process of creating, rendering, and publishing your first Quarto document with ease. Discover why Positron is the best environment for Quarto documents. We walk you through key features that streamline your work: • Quarto CLI and the Quarto extension are pre-installed. You can start creating and rendering right out of the box! • Use handy buttons, commands (Quarto: New Document, Quarto: Preview), and shortcuts to complete common tasks quickly. • Get comprehensive support for code cells with code completion, linting, and integrated documentation for R and Python. • Benefit from suggestions and warnings as you configure document and code cell options in the header. • Easily access the full quarto command-line interface, including the powerful quarto publish command. Read the blog post: https://posit.co/blog/create-a-quarto-document-in-positron/ Resources Mentioned: • Quarto in the Positron Guide: https://positron.posit.co/quarto.html • Getting Started with Quarto in Positron (R/Python): https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/hello/positron.html • Positron in the Quarto Guide: https://quarto.org/docs/tools/positron/ #Quarto #Positron #DataScience #QuartoTutorial #PositronIDE #DataVisualization #Publishing #RStats #Python #CodingWorkflow

Charlotte Wickham

From One Notebook to Many Reports: Parameterized reports with the `jupyter` engine

Learn how to transform a single Jupyter notebook into a parameterized report generator that automatically creates customized outputs for different scenarios

Charlotte Wickham

Quarto 1.7

Quarto 1.7 brings big improvements to dark mode along with updates to Typst, Pandoc, a new `version` shortcode, and improvements to the `julia` engine

Charlotte Wickham

Quarto website video series

Build a personal website with Quarto by following this four-part video series on YouTube

Charlotte Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Quarto 1.6

Quarto 1.6 supports unified branding across formats, updates to RevealJS, a new shortcode to reorder content, a landscape page block, and more. There are also a couple of breaking changes that will affect a small number of users

Charlotte Wickham

Quarto dashboards video series

Learn how to build a Quarto dashboard with a three-part video series

Charlotte Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Quarto Websites 4: Add lists of content with listings | Charlotte Wickham | Posit

Adding a listing page to your website is a great way to showcase your projects, talks, publications or blog posts. In this video you’ll learn how to create a listing page in Quarto and see two ways to populate it with content: Quarto documents, or a yaml file. In this video: 0:50 Use a listing to add a blog 3:36 Listing options 5:47 Why use a listing? 7:22 Use a YAML file to populate a project portfolio 9:50 Customize the display of a listing 12:10 Advanced customization of listings 13:42 Remove pages Links: Listings: https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-listings.html Andrew Heiss’ teaching listing: https://www.andrewheiss.com/teaching/ Code: Starter source code: https://github.com/cwickham/quarto-website-video/tree/v0.3 Final source code: https://github.com/cwickham/quarto-website-video/tree/v0.4 For more in-depth coverage and slides check out: https://posit-conf-2024.github.io/quarto-websites/ Do you need a professional website to showcase your work? If you’ve used Quarto to produce a document, you’ve already got the technical skills to create a Quarto website. In this video series, you’ll learn everything else you need to build a website and customize its appearance. This video series is for you if you: - Have used Quarto to generate documents (e.g. HTML, PDF, MS Word etc.) - Are comfortable editing plain text documents (e.g .qmd) in your IDE (e.g. RStudio, Visual Studio Code etc.) - Want to walk away with your own personal website Taught by: Charlotte Wickham (https://www.cwick.co.nz/) Emil Hvitfeldt (https://emilhvitfeldt.com/) Videos in this series: 1. Build your homepage [https://youtu.be/l7r24gTEkEY] 2. Add pages and navigation [https://youtu.be/k65E-8PXZmA] 3: Customize appearance with CSS/SCSS [https://youtu.be/pAN2Hiq0XGs] 4: Add lists of content with listings [https://youtu.be/bv_Cw-3HI1Y]

Charlotte Wickham, Emil Hvitfeldt

Quarto Websites 3: Customize appearance with CSS/SCSS | Emil Hvitfeldt | Posit

You now have a set of content you are happy with on your website, but how do you customize the look and feel of your site beyond options set in YAML? In this video, you’ll start by learning the basics of CSS and SCSS and how to make good design choices. Then, you’ll see how to apply these choices to your Quarto website. In this video: 0:14 What is HTML? 3:23 CSS Selectors 8:05 CSS Attributes 8:25 Layout attributes 10:24 Reducing repetition with SASS/SCSS? 15:26 Consistent design 16:36 Choosing colors 17:50 Choosing fonts 19:28 Maintaining accessibility 22:13 Apply SCSS to your website 24:16 Change the appearance of headings 25:28 Change the appearance of navigation bar 30:30 Use google fonts Links: Color contrast checker: https://colourcontrast.cc/ Google fonts: https://fonts.google.com/ Code: Starter source code: https://github.com/cwickham/quarto-website-video/tree/v0.2 Final source code: https://github.com/cwickham/quarto-website-video/tree/v0.3 For more in-depth coverage and slides check out: https://posit-conf-2024.github.io/quarto-websites/ Do you need a professional website to showcase your work? If you’ve used Quarto to produce a document, you’ve already got the technical skills to create a Quarto website. In this video series, you’ll learn everything else you need to build a website and customize its appearance. This video series is for you if you: - Have used Quarto to generate documents (e.g. HTML, PDF, MS Word etc.) - Are comfortable editing plain text documents (e.g .qmd) in your IDE (e.g. RStudio, Visual Studio Code etc.) - Want to walk away with your own personal website Taught by: Charlotte Wickham (https://www.cwick.co.nz/) Emil Hvitfeldt (https://emilhvitfeldt.com/) Videos in this series: 1. Build your homepage [https://youtu.be/l7r24gTEkEY] 2. Add pages and navigation [https://youtu.be/k65E-8PXZmA] 3: Customize appearance with CSS/SCSS [https://youtu.be/pAN2Hiq0XGs] 4: Add lists of content with listings [https://youtu.be/bv_Cw-3HI1Y]

Charlotte Wickham, Emil Hvitfeldt

Quarto Websites 2: Add pages and navigation | Charlotte Wickham | Posit

Now you’ve got a homepage, you’ll likely want to add some other pages. In this video, learn how to add pages to your website, and help people find them, by adding them to your website navigation. In this video: 1:00 Add a page to your website 2:54 Your file structure determines your URL structure 5:49 Add a link to your page in navigation 7:50 Customize navigation item text and icon 9:12 Control where items appear in the navigation bar 10:16 Navigation bar options 11:11 Switch to side navigation 12:22 Other types of navigation 16:30 Wrap Up Links: List of icons you can use in navigation items: https://icons.getbootstrap.com/ Top navigation bar options: https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-navigation.html#top-navigation Quarto website navigation: https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-navigation.html Code: Starter source code: https://github.com/cwickham/quarto-website-video/tree/v0.1 Final source code: https://github.com/cwickham/quarto-website-video/tree/v0.2 For more in-depth coverage and slides check out: https://posit-conf-2024.github.io/quarto-websites/ Do you need a professional website to showcase your work? If you’ve used Quarto to produce a document, you’ve already got the technical skills to create a Quarto website. In this video series, you’ll learn everything else you need to build a website and customize its appearance. This video series is for you if you: - Have used Quarto to generate documents (e.g. HTML, PDF, MS Word etc.) - Are comfortable editing plain text documents (e.g .qmd) in your IDE (e.g. RStudio, Visual Studio Code etc.) - Want to walk away with your own personal website Taught by: Charlotte Wickham (https://www.cwick.co.nz/) Emil Hvitfeldt (https://emilhvitfeldt.com/) Videos in this series: 1. Build your homepage [https://youtu.be/l7r24gTEkEY] 2. Add pages and navigation [https://youtu.be/k65E-8PXZmA] 3: Customize appearance with CSS/SCSS [https://youtu.be/pAN2Hiq0XGs] 4: Add lists of content with listings [https://youtu.be/bv_Cw-3HI1Y]

Charlotte Wickham, Emil Hvitfeldt

Quarto Websites 1: Build your homepage | Charlotte Wickham & Emil Hvitfeldt | Posit

In this video, you’ll get a running start by using a template we've designed to be functional and attractive, and that will serve as a foundation for the rest of the video series. You’ll customize the content of your homepage, and how it looks, and along the way learn about the two key files in a Quarto website index.qmd and _quarto.yml. Finally, you’ll learn one way to publish your website so other people can see it. In this video: 0:21 Use a template to get started 2:33 Preview the template homepage, index.qmd 4:12 Customize the content of your homepage 5:45 “About” pages 7:22 Customize the image on your homepage 9:24 Website configuration, _quarto.yml 10:40 Customize colors with YAML 13:45 Customize fonts with YAML 17:00 Publish your site Links: About pages: https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-about.html Appearance options you can set in YAML: https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/html-themes.html#basic-options Code: Starter source code: https://github.com/EmilHvitfeldt/website-template Final source code: https://github.com/cwickham/quarto-website-video/tree/v0.1 For more in-depth coverage and slides check out: https://posit-conf-2024.github.io/quarto-websites/ Do you need a professional website to showcase your work? If you’ve used Quarto to produce a document, you’ve already got the technical skills to create a Quarto website. In this video series, you’ll learn everything else you need to build a website and customize its appearance. This video series is for you if you: - Have used Quarto to generate documents (e.g. HTML, PDF, MS Word etc.) - Are comfortable editing plain text documents (e.g .qmd) in your IDE (e.g. RStudio, Visual Studio Code etc.) - Want to walk away with your own personal website Taught by: Charlotte Wickham (https://www.cwick.co.nz/) Emil Hvitfeldt (https://emilhvitfeldt.com/) Videos in this series: 1. Build your homepage [https://youtu.be/l7r24gTEkEY] 2. Add pages and navigation [https://youtu.be/k65E-8PXZmA] 3: Customize appearance with CSS/SCSS [https://youtu.be/pAN2Hiq0XGs] 4: Add lists of content with listings [https://youtu.be/bv_Cw-3HI1Y]

Charlotte Wickham, Emil Hvitfeldt

Updates from Posit, with Hadley Wickham, Charlotte Wickham, George Stagg, and James Blair

6:45 Hadley introduces the conference. 10:37 Hadley on Posit, PBC. Who are we, and what we do. 20:41 Charlotte Wickham on Quarto, an open-source scientific and technical publishing system. 31:05 George Stagg on webR, R for WebAssembly. Execute R code in your web browser. 43:34 James Blair with the latest on Posit's partnerships with Databricks and Snowflake. Please join us for our first Posit Conf 2024 keynote, where we’ll tell you about our mission, our products, and some of the exciting things we’ve been working on over the last year. Hadley Wickham, Chief Scientist, will talk briefly about Posit’s mission and products, before introducing the three speakers who will update you on some of the coolest projects we’ve worked on over the last year. James Blair, Senior Product Manager, will give you the latest on our partnerships with Databricks and Snowflake, and how we’re building seamless integrations that let you focus on data science instead of dealing with technical details. Charlotte Wickham, Developer Educator, will show you what’s new in Quarto, focusing on new ways to build beautiful PDFs with Typst. Finally, George Stagg, Senior Software Engineer, will tell you about the latest innovations in teaching using webR, a tool that lets you compile your R code into standalone HTML files. Talk by Hadley Wickham, James Blair, Charlotte Wickham, and George Stagg

Charlotte Wickham, George Stagg, Hadley Wickham

Quarto 1.5

Quarto 1.5 improves Typst support, has some website enhancements like draft handling and announcement bars, adds a native Julia engine, and adds a couple of shortcodes for generating placeholder content

Charlotte Wickham

Quarto 1.4

Quarto 1.4 brings new formats for dashboards and Typst, a new manuscript project type, a cross-reference overhaul, Shiny for Python support, and a ton of other updates

Charlotte Wickham

What's New in Quarto?* - posit::conf(2023)

Presented by Charlotte Wickham It's been over a year since Quarto 1.0, an open-source scientific and technical publishing system, was announced at rstudio::conf(2022). In this talk, I'll highlight some of the improvements to Quarto since then. You'll learn about new formats, options, tools, and ways to supercharge your content. And, if you haven't used Quarto yet, come to see some reasons to try it out. Presented at Posit Conference, between Sept 19-20 2023, Learn more at posit.co/conference. -------------------------- Talk Track: Quarto (1). Session Code: TALK-1072

Charlotte Wickham

Quarto 1.3

Quarto 1.3 brings new features, improvements, and fixes

Charlotte Wickham

Confluence Publishing

Quarto 1.3 adds support for publishing individual documents, and projects containing many documents to Atlassian Confluence

Charlotte Wickham

Jupyter Notebook Cell Embedding

Quarto 1.3 adds support for embedding cells from a Jupyter Notebook into a Quarto document via an `embed` shortcode. In HTML documents, links are automatically added that point to a rendered version of the external notebook

Charlotte Wickham

Multi-format Publishing

In Quarto 1.3, additional formats listed in HTML documents will automatically be linked in an "Other Formats" section near the top of the page

Charlotte Wickham

Code Annotation

In Quarto 1.3, you can add line based annotations to code chunks to highlight or explain parts of your code

Charlotte Wickham

Building Tidy Tools Workshop at rstudio::conf(2020)

A guide to the content and guiding principles of the Building Tidy Tools Workshop

Charlotte Wickham