Quarto

Using R Studio with Quarto to write blogs and research papers

We will soon host our first hybrid NSC-R workshop. You are very welcome to join us in the Colloquium Room at NSCR, which for the occasion will be labeled the NSC-R Studio. The workshop will of course also be hosted on Zoom as usual.

In this NSC-R workshop Harrie Jonkman will show us how to work with Quarto. Quarto is a tool that helps you write research papers and blogs. It is a modern version of RMarkdown that is part of RStudio. Quarto can be used to write (reproducible) research papers and blogs that integrate text with data analysis and visualization.

After the workshop we should know how Quarto works and understand the basic principles of making a blog, and can transfer this knowledge to writing a paper or report (or making a website, or book).

To profit most from this workshop, you need to have a very basic knowledge of R and R Markdown.

Join this workshop meeting on Zoom by clicking this link

Harrie Jonkman recently retired. He was senior researcher at the Verwey-Jonker Institute. He worked in the field of education and prevention and the social and cognitive development of children and youngsters. You can find more information on his personal website. He has his own blog Harrie’s Hoekje on modern data-analysis.

Materials

The materials that Harrie used in his workshop are not only about Quarto, they were also produced using Quatro. Links to the Quarto-presentation and a Quarto-blog you find beneath. When you want to see how he made the presentation, the blog and the articles you find all the materials in three repositories on his GitHub space. So:

• The introductory presentation you can find here. All the material for this presentation in Quarto you can find here

• The Quarto-style blogversion of the NSC-R Workshops website is here. When you want to see how this blog is made you can find in this repository here

• And examples of standalone articles created with Quarto are here

To download files from GitHub you can:

Clone the repository to create a local copy in your computer. To clone a repository, follow the instructions here.

Alternatively, you can:

1. Download all files compressed in a ZIP. To do this, go to the repository and click on the green code button, then select download ZIP. Unzip the downloaded file into a folder on your local computer.
2. Download a specific file. To do this, select the desired file in the repository and click on the raw button. Then right click on the new page and select save as. Don’t forget to put the proper extension in the save name, like .R or .Rmd or qmd.