Week 2: Markdown in (most) flavors
Markdown, rMarkdown, GitHub flavored Markdown and Quarto
This week’s slides can be found here
Introduction
Dear all,
Welcome to Quarto - If you already know rMarkdown, it will be a breeze. If you don’t know rMarkdown yet or if you feel that you need a refresher, please follow this Get Started guide. For all others, we have outlined a couple of relevant links and videos to get a quick grasp on reproducible academic publishing with Quarto.
All the best,
Gerko and Hanne
Preparation
Watch this video
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel has a great video that highlights many of Quarto’s relevant features in our field.
Browse the Quarto website
The people at Posit have designed this awesome companion website that details pretty much everything Quarto. Have a look around and remember this source when you’re in need of some additional functionality. Much of what you can do with Quarto is detailed here.
Exercise 1
Create a quarto presentation with 3 slides and a logo
- a title slide with at least your name and ORCID
- a slide with your favourite equation
- a slide with some source of information about you that (most of) your classmates do not know
Bring this presentation to the next class
Exercise 2
Create a presentation about any topic you like that consists of at least 7 slides and includes all of the following:
- a logo
- a centered still figure
- an interactive table
- a moving figure, interactive figure or movie
- a 2-column slide
- an aligned multi-row equation
- a citation and reference list
- a bibliographic reference
- r-code, displayed but not executed
- cached and labeled r-code (may overlap with the next requirement)
- r-code, executed, but not displayed (e.g. a figure generation)
- an
renvreproducible enviroment
Of course this presentation may serve as the basis for presentations that you may have to create for other courses. Submit the presentation to this year’s GitHub repo.