Schedule and materials can be found on the workshop website.
Description
There are increasing demands on scientific staff in preparing reports for governmental and public dissemination, as well as scientific dissemination. Creating reports is a time-consuming task, as it often requires switching between programs for writing, doing analyses and creating tables and figures, as well as other graphical and textual programs. Learning efficient tools in combining programming and report generation are becoming increasingly important to alleviate the manual and burdensome process of switching programs. Quarto is a second generation report framework based on the popular markdown plain text format. Combining writing in markdown with the ability to run code to format, analyse, and visualise data, all in the same place, creates a seamless environment for the researchers to produce reports. While this workshop will focus on using Quarto with R, it also has native abilities to interact with python, observable.js and Julia, without needing R installed. This makes Quarto a great tool to learn, no matter which language you focus on.
Learning outcomes
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Understand the basics of markdown
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Ability to generate html & pdf reports, and presentations
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Ability to cross-reference report content and add citations
Prerequisites
Workshop is suited to those with some experience in R, python or Javascript. The workshop will focus on teaching Quarto, so the non-quarto components of the workshop will not be explained in detail.
The workshop will be taught with examples from R, using RStudio. But helpers and co-instructors with experience in python and VScode will also be present to assist.
Target audience
Researchers, PhD students, master students, Professors wanting to learn how to write code combined with prose in a single document to produce wanted results.
Required material
A personal laptop is necessary to follow along.
All necessary installation instructions can be found on the workshop website