Quarto Blog – Quarto

Use `meta` + `include` to customize reusable content

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Authoring

The "Includes" feature in Quarto lets you efficiently reuse content across multiple files. Combined with the "meta" shortcode, it enables you to set precise, file-specific values.

Quarto Websites Workshop

Quarto website video series

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Workshop

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

Charlotte Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Quarto 1.6 with a palette.

Quarto 1.6

Quarto 1.6

Releases

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

Build a dashboard workshop with Quarto, R and/or Python.

Quarto dashboards video series

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Workshop

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

Charlotte Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Collage of speakers with Quarto talks at posit::conf(2024)

posit::conf(2024) Quarto talks

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Conference

Videos of talks from posit::conf(2024) are posted, we've compiled a playlist of Quarto talks for you!

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Charlotte Wickham

posit::conf(2024) Quarto workshop materials

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Workshop

Back in August, we hosted three Quarto workshops at posit::conf(2024); the materials from those workshops are available to learn and teach from!

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Charlotte Wickham

Quarto 1.5 with a balloon

Quarto 1.5

Quarto 1.5

Releases

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

typst snapshot tk

Beautiful Tables in Typst

Quarto 1.5

Tables

You can use HTML Tables with CSS styling in Typst via Quarto.

Gordon Woodhull

posit::conf(2024) iconography including Seattle skyline on the left and the words 'Quarto workshops' on the right.

Quarto workshops at posit::conf(2024)

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Workshop

On August 12, we're hosting a day of workshops featuring three dedicated to Quarto at posit::conf(2024) in Seattle

Isabella Velásquez and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

From multiple Quarto documents and scripts in R and python to PDF or Word output.

Quarto for Reproducible Medical Manuscripts

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R/Medicine webinar on Quarto manuscripts

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Quarto on Hugging Face

You can now host Quarto sites on Hugging Face using the new Quarto Space template.

Gordon Shotwell

Quarto 1.4 with a party popper

Quarto 1.4

Quarto 1.4 is released

Quarto 1.4

Releases

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

Quarto Dashboards Demonstration

A brief tour of how to build a dashboard in Quarto v1.4.

Demo

Quarto 1.4

Quarto has a host of exciting new features in release v1.4 with one of the most anticipated being Quarto Dashboards. In a recent internal presentation, Charles Teague…

Screenshots of homepages of six courses titled From R Markdown to Quarto

ASA Traveling Courses on Quarto

From R Markdown to Quarto

Learn

Series of workshops for learning Quarto with R and RStudio, aimed primarily at R Markdown users.

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Quarto for Academics

A potpourri of Quarto features useful for academics

Learn

A video highlighting some of Quarto's features that are especially useful for academics, as educators and as researchers.

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Get Started with Quarto

A video to jumpstart your Quarto journey

Learn

A new video for getting started with Quarto using R and RStudio.

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Fireworks with a silhouette of an audience

Quarto 1.3

Quarto 1.3 is officially released

Quarto 1.3

Releases

Quarto 1.3 brings new features, improvements, and fixes.

Charlotte Wickham

Confluence Publishing

Publish from Quarto to Confluence

Features

Authoring

Quarto 1.3

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

Charlotte Wickham

A screenshot of a Quarto page that includes a plot, below the plot is the phrase Source: penguins.ipynb.

Jupyter Notebook Cell Embedding

Embed output from an external Jupyter Notebook in a Quarto document

Features

Authoring

Quarto 1.3

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

Screenshot of a Quarto webpage showing a section entitled 'Other Formats' with items Jupyter and MS Word

Multi-format Publishing

Automatically link to other formats in HTML documents

Features

Authoring

Quarto 1.3

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

Screenshot a code chunk with annotations. Annotations appear in the code chunk as numbers within circles, and repeat below the code chunk along with the text content of the annotations.

Code Annotation

Add line based annotations to your code chunks

Features

Authoring

Quarto 1.3

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

Charlotte Wickham

Screenshot of a Quarto document with an embedded Shinylive application.

Shinylive Extension

Embed Shinylive applications in Quarto documents

Extensions

Features

With Shinylive, you can embed Shiny for Python applications into Quarto documents and run the entire application (including the Python runtime) inside the user's web browser.

The main page for the quarto-ext GitHub organization which lists extensions published by the Quarto core team.

Quarto Extensions

Extend Quarto with new capabilities

Extensions

Features

Quarto Extensions are a powerful way to modify or extend the behavior of Quarto, and can be created and distributed by anyone. Extension types include filters, shortcodes, and custom formats.

Quarto at rstudio::conf(2022)

Quarto-related workshops and talks at rstudio::conf(2022)

Conf

Workshop

Talk

[rstudio::conf(2022)](https://rstd.io/conf) will feature a variety of workshops and talks on Quarto. Join us in Washington DC this July 25-28 to learn more about Quarto and hear from folks using Quarto to create, share, and collaborate.

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Screenshot of two sections of post: Margin Figures, which has a plot in the margin; and Arbitrary Margin Content, which has text with a LaTeX equation in the margin.

Positioning Content in the Margin

Create 'Tufte' style documents with sidenotes, margin tables and figures, and other margin content

Features

Layout

This post demonstrates a few of the capabilities for positioning content in the margin of the page. You can read more about the complete capabilities in the [Article Layout Guide](/docs/authoring/article-layout.qmd).

Table 1: Example. Has two subtables: Subtable a, Cars, with columns for speed and dist; and subtable b, Pressure, with columns for temperature and pressure.

Customizing Table Output

Author and customize markdown tables using Quarto

Features

Authoring

Tables

This post provides an overview of these capabilities in Quarto. For more detail about all the features Quarto for authoring tables, see [Tables](/docs/authoring/tables.qmd).

Three calout boxes: A note (has a blue banner with info icon preceding the header), a tip (has a green banner with lightbulb icon preceding the header), and an important (has a red banner with info exclamation-point icon preceding the header).

Using Callouts

Use callouts to draw attention to important complementary content without interupting the document flow

Features

Authoring

Callouts are an excellent way to draw extra attention to certain concepts, or to more clearly indicate that certain content is supplemental or applicable to only some scenarios.