Efficient Writing with Quarto

Author Quarto articles with RStudio

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Author

Aman Das

Published

August 26, 2023

This tutorial will get you started with writing Quarto Documents and Presentations using RStudio

Pre-requisites

Creating a New Document

  • Open RStudio Desktop on the Computer.
  • In the File menu, select New File > Quarto Document.
  • In the New Quarto Document dialog box, provide the Title and Author name of the Document. Let HTML be the output format, and toggle ON the Use visual markdown editor option.
  • A new Quarto Document would be created, save it by clicking the Save button in RStudio toolbar2.

Composition

  • Click the Render button in the Document toolbar, a preview webpage of the document would be displayed and refreshed.
  • The beginning of the file would contain the Document and HTML format metadata such as Title, Author, Date, CSS theme, etc.
  • In the document body, you may begin writing and format it afterwards.
  • To format some text, select it. Click the desired formatting in the Document toolbar such as Bold3, Italic4, Underline, Code5 etc.
  • To set a line to be a heading/subheading, select it wholly and click Block Format > Header # in the Document Toolbar.

Code

  • To embed Code cell/chunk in the Document, navigate to a new line.

  • Select Insert > Executable Cell > language in the Document toolbar.

  • A blank code cell would be created, any code written inside would be run during Document render.

  • The code along with the output produced would displayed in the document. For example:

    ```{r}

n = 100000

u1 = runif(n)
u2 = runif(n)

z1 = sqrt(-2*log(u1)) * cos(2 * pi * u2)
z2 = sqrt(-2*log(u1)) * sin(2 * pi * u2)

plot(density(c(z1, z2)))
```

  • The code may be hidden or folded too.

Miscellaneous Tips

  • Insert/create tables using the Table Document toolbar item.

  • Embed links by selecting the hypertext and clicking the Link..6 button in toolbar. Provide the URL to open if the hypertext is clicked.

  • Latex content may be inserted via the Insert > Latex Math option.

Further Reading

Footnotes

  1. Using the toolbar/menubar, saving, formatting and other basic tasks.↩︎

  2. Ctrl+S↩︎

  3. Ctrl+B↩︎

  4. Ctrl+I↩︎

  5. Ctrl+D↩︎

  6. Ctrl+K↩︎