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News, tips, and commentary about all things Quarto

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 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
Quarto 1.3 brings new features, improvements, and fixes.
Apr 26, 2023
Charlotte Wickham

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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

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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 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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