Create beautiful documents with Quarto and R

[@danielboadzie8143]

I love Quarto! I'm writing a technical Python book with it. Thank soo much for this awesome tool.

[@solomonyao4545]

How do you use it bro

[@haraldurkarlsson1147]

@@solomonyao4545 He probably just choses the book options. I believe it is in there (sort of like LaTeX).

[@fcasoqueiroz]

I'm so glad I've found your channel!!!!! Thanks so much 💟

[@marcogelsomini7655]

20:10 ok that's good!! I was wondering it' s the same as rmarkdown

[@haraldurkarlsson1147]

Quarto ís excellent. The document formatting, figure and table arrangement and cross-referencing remind me a lot of Latex. As an avid LaTeX user I am thrilled.

[@DrLyndonWalker]

You can use raw LaTeX in there too quarto.org/docs/visual-editor/technical.html#latex-and-html

[@peterman3699]

very useful...Thank you so much

[@ericanku9451]

I just read about Quarto from LinkedIn and I love the description from the video, R Markdown on steroids😀.

[@dskevinperezgarcia]

Greetings. One question, if I make changes to my quarto file locally, how would I update my post in quartopub?

[@DrLyndonWalker]

Can you just republish? I haven't actually run into this myself, but that would be my first instinct. Otherwise check the quartopub documentation quarto.org/docs/publishing/quarto-pub.html

[@takesuretozooneyi4836]

Thanx Dr. It will be also nice to learn how to make an academic website with quarto.

[@rtheodoro]

Great video! How can I change my quarto fonts and justify my text?

[@DrLyndonWalker]

Great questions. I just posted a video on how to change your Quarto document font. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3LPmaRurs1_qdk To justify text, you can select your text, and in the visual editor go to format, div, and add align="justify" in the other box. There might be other/better ways of doing it, I'm still investigating.

[@rtheodoro]

@@DrLyndonWalker Great!

[@miransh]

Thanks - this was definately helpful. Would you please show how to convert an existing .r file to .qmd? Thanks

[@DrLyndonWalker]

If you mean an rmd RMarkdown file, you can just change the extension from .rmd to .qmd and when you open it you will get all of your render & Quarto options. If you just have a .R file with a whole bunch of R code, I would open a new Quarto doc and copy the code into chunks as you would like it to appear in your document. I hope that helps.

[@Kiulianm1]

Is it possible to convert an R.Markdown to Quarto?

[@DrLyndonWalker]

Great question. Quarto does seem to be backwards compatible. If you rename a .RMD file as a .QMD file it will open as a Quarto doc will render (at least it has for the ones I have tried). Then you can go through and add the extra bits and pieces that Quarto offers.

[@mohammedalis77777]

Very good video. Is there any option to host a Quarto HTML book in Microsoft Teams / Microsoft Sharepoint?

[@DrLyndonWalker]

Great question. I haven't tested this yet but I would start by renaming my html files as .aspx files (the format that Sharepoint wants) and upload to your document library. Then I think you just embed as required.

[@parkphillip7339]

I salute your Quarto lecture. I'm trying to convert multiple qmd files into a single word file in a .qmd file, but it doesn't work. I ask for your help. The coding below is not working. How can I make it possible to code? ```{r, fig.width = 9.5, fig.height = 11} source("1.qmd") source("2.qmd") source("3.qmd") source("4.qmd") source("5.qmd") source("6.qmd") source("7.qmd") source("8.qmd") ```

[@DrLyndonWalker]

I haven't tried doing this before but does something like this help: stackoverflow.com/questions/73628379/rendering-many-connected-quarto-documents

[@parkphillip7339]

@@DrLyndonWalker Thanks a lot for your information, but resolutions are not mine.

[@silvadidierrr]

Hi, great video! thanks However when I work with my data I see this error and I don't know how to fix it: Error in tools::file_path_as_absolute(cwd) : file 'H:\My Drive\NAMEFOLDER1\NAMEFOLDER1.1\NAMEFOLDER' does not exist Calls: .main -> execute -> Execution halted I'm not sure if it's the use of / vs \ the problem. Please help!

[@DrLyndonWalker]

Definitely an issue with setting your working directory. Check that your path exists and is typed correctly. See www.sthda.com/english/wiki/running-rstudio-and-setting-up-your-working-directory-easy-r-programming For more on working directories

[@silvadidierrr]

@@DrLyndonWalker thanks so much!

[@rfulleasy5349]

Is possible put the output in rpubs?

[@DrLyndonWalker]

I haven't tried it myself but searching rpubs there are quarto pages so I would guess so. Have a look at the producing a quarto website help on the quarto website. I think the html + website options should get you there.

[@haraldurkarlsson1147]

I think LaTeX users will find the document styling in Quarto simple. The power of Quarto (and RMarkdown) lies in the code blocks. LaTeX is not designed for that but it goes into much greater depth on the document side. Quarto barely touches the surface of LaTeX is capable of doing. Perhaps Quarto will draw some user to LaTeX - it might not look as scary after you use Quarto. In Quarto LaTeX and R (or python) meet in the middle and you get the best of both.

[@DrLyndonWalker]

Absolutely. Overleaf made LaTeX a little more accessible but having everything integrated is so handy.

[@haraldurkarlsson1147]

Can you explain the difference between a Quarto document and Quarto Project?

[@DrLyndonWalker]

If you think about the project as all of the bits and pieces (so the directory/folder, the various files, the meta data) whereas the document is the thing being produced (pdf, word, html etc).

[@SergeiDumnov]

In 2000 version 1.0.0 of R was released to the public.

[@DrLyndonWalker]

Indeed. I was lucky to get an early start on it in 1997.

[@navjotsingh2251]

@@DrLyndonWalker haha, I only started with R last year…

[@musicspinner]

@@DrLyndonWalker A true R OG.

[@DudeGuyWho]

Thank you...but too quiet: I couldn't watch it even after maximizing all audio settings. (Granted I'm a little hard of hearing.)

[@DrLyndonWalker]

Thanks. That's something I have been working on. Hopefully my newer videos are mastered at a better (louder) volume.