Markdown

"Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor."

It's what's used for the HackMD presentations.

It's what's used for the Readme.md documentation files.

Why Quarto?

Quarto is an open source publishing system for technical and scientific documents. It implements Markdown, allowing for integration with multiple languages, (e.g. R and Python).

Meant as a non-R-focused replacement for RMarkdown.

It allows:

• automated reports with dynamic fields based on data inputs
• clear code and results documentation
• presentations with direct code outputs
• etc.

Quarto workflow

(source: https://quarto.org/docs/faq/rmarkdown.html)

Quarto file – .Qmd
Markdown file – .md
Final output – .html/tex/pdf/others

(Note: it was similar for RMarkdown, with Rmd instead of qmd)

Let's check in RStudio

Let's start a Quarto project (notice we can include git and renv!)

(Prefer Python? Check here!)

Some reading

Quarto guide