Authoring collaborative research projects in Quarto

Learn how to develop reproducible and sharable workflows using Quarto and Git. We will take you through how to host collaborative research projects as a formatted (and cool looking) HTML on GitHub. With some easy-to-learn version control and markdown syntax, research outputs can be shared as a live link that is consistent with your latest analyses. One benefit of Quarto is flexibility, accepting multiple programming languages (R, Python, Julia...) and output formats (docx, pdf, html...).

Requirements

The session is designed to be easy to follow; however, is targeted at people already familiar with basic coding, code editing software, and version control. We will be using R as an example but Python, R, Julia, and Observable JavaScript are the primary languages Quarto support. R-specific experience is not required.

Before the session install:

• Quarto

• R

• Git

• log in to GitHub (or sign up for a free account)

• VS Code

  • VS Code Extensions (install in the extensions tab in VS Code):
    • R
    • Quarto
    • Git