Quarto Blog

News, tips, and commentary about all things Quarto

Quarto icon and text above GitHub Codespaces.

How to use GitHub Codespaces to simplify your Quarto workshops

GitHub Codespaces
Teaching
Dev Container

In this post, I’ll teach you the basics of GitHub Codespaces and how to use them to make it easier to teach using Quarto.

May 19, 2025
Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D.
Quarto 1.7: half the Quarto logo is light on dark, the other half dark on light

Quarto 1.7

Quarto 1.7
Releases

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.

Apr 28, 2025
Charlotte Wickham

Tip - use Positron to choose colors for your project brand

Learn
Tip
brand

Use Positron’s integrated color picker for an easy way to choose colors for your next project’s _brand.yml.

Jan 15, 2025
Carlos Scheidegger
Quarto logo with single source publishing icon.

Use meta + include to customize reusable content

Learn
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.

Dec 12, 2024
Ashley Henry
Quarto Websites Workshop

Quarto website video series

Learn
Workshop

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

Dec 4, 2024
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.

Nov 25, 2024
Charlotte Wickham
Build a dashboard workshop with Quarto, R and/or Python.

Quarto dashboards video series

Learn
Workshop

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

Nov 22, 2024
Charlotte Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
Collage of speakers with Quarto talks at posit::conf(2024)

posit::conf(2024) Quarto talks

Learn
Conference

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

Nov 6, 2024
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Charlotte Wickham
posit::conf(2024) logo

posit::conf(2024) Quarto workshop materials

Learn
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!

Oct 15, 2024
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.

Jul 11, 2024
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.

Jul 2, 2024
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)

Learn
Workshop

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

May 28, 2024
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

Learn

R/Medicine webinar on Quarto manuscripts

Apr 1, 2024
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
Hugging Face Logo

Quarto on Hugging Face

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

Mar 26, 2024
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.

Jan 24, 2024
Charlotte Wickham
Quarto logo on a blue background with the title Quarto Dashboards, Charles Teague and an abstract dashboard sketch

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…
Dec 7, 2023
Andrew Holz
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.

Dec 5, 2023
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
Quarto logo on a blue background and the title of the video - Quarto for Academics

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.

May 22, 2023
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
Quarto logo on a blue background and the title of the video - Get started with Quarto

Get Started with Quarto

A video to jumpstart your Quarto journey
Learn

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

May 15, 2023
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.

Apr 26, 2023
Charlotte Wickham
Atlassian Confluence Logo

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.

Mar 20, 2023
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.

Mar 17, 2023
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.

Mar 15, 2023
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.

Mar 13, 2023
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.

Oct 25, 2022
Winston Chang
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.

Jul 25, 2022
J.J. Allaire
rstudio:conf(2022) logo: orange background with the outline of the Washington DC skyline.

Quarto at rstudio::conf(2022)

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

rstudio::conf(2022) 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.

Jun 21, 2022
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.

Feb 17, 2022
Charles Teague
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.

Feb 15, 2022
JJ Allaire
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.

Feb 13, 2022
Charles Teague
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