Week 12: Quarto

Authors
Affiliation

Menuka Bhandari

CFAES Bioinformatics Core, Ohio State University

Jelmer Poelstra

Published

November 8, 2025

1 Overview

This week we will introduce the basics of Quarto. Quarto is an extension of Markdown that allows to combine YAML header, code chunks and text. We will create Quarto documents, use several options to display/hide codes and figures, and render your Quarto source document to an output HTML document.

2 Lectures & Learning goals

Some of the things you will learn this week:

Introduction to Quarto

  • Basics of Quarto (syntax and formats)
  • How to create and render a Quarto document in RStudio
  • Understand three components of Quarto ; YAML header, code chunks and text

3 Assignments and exercises

4 Further resources

TBA

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