Quarto Dashboards | Charles Teague | Posit

Quarto has a host of exciting new features in release v1.4, with one of the most anticipated being Quarto Dashboards. In a recent internal presentation, Posit's Charles Teague demonstrated the new capabilities and we wanted to share it with community.
Please note that you can use this feature today, but to access it you need to be running on a Quarto prerelease build dated November 6, 2023, or later. We also encourage users to review our pre-release documentation which offers additional information and examples of the dashboard functionality.
Quarto Pre-release builds: quarto.org/docs/download/prer...
Quarto Dashboard Documentation: quarto.org/docs/dashboards/

[@woodworkingaspirations1720]

Beautiful work

[@rgpy]

Excellent source. Quarto is going to make our job really easy

[@Sensemakingdata]

Very nice; both your presentation and the new feature! Works great

[@EkShunya]

thanks for your work, i love the tool.

[@paulemmanuelkouassi2587]

Pretty nice ! I can't wait for this 😊🎉

[@CaribouDataScience]

Thanks, that looks promising!

[@marianklose1197]

Looks very neat!

[@pipertripp]

That's great! Looks like it's easy peasy to create great layouts with just basic markdown.

[@JohnWilliamsFromBluff]

Er, what am I missing? You demonstrate adding twitter & github navbars, and two value boxes, but I can't see them on screen. Should I be able to? Are they right in front of my eyes, but I just don't see them? (Sadly, a not uncommon occurrence as I experience age-related cognitive decline ;-)

[@syhusada1130]

the twitter navbar should be behind the screen showing his face for the github, I'm not sure, I followed the code, but it's not showing in my quarto dashboard either

[@oddsratio4070]

Red and green colour blind ?

[@jjmyt13]

I can't see the value boxes either. My guess is they are out of frame, just below Cars Plot.

[@MarcStx-wj5yp]

I've got a problem with the "dashboard" format. Message from background job : "Field "format" has value dashboard, which must instead be 'asciidoc'". what is the relationship with asciidoc ?

[@NagarjunGB]

I get the same error, did you manage to solve this?

[@MarcStx-wj5yp]

@@NagarjunGB Yes, you need to install the latest versions of R and Quarto.

[@CaribouDataScience]

What is the target release date for 1.4?

[@rayflyers]

I make a lot of similar flexdashboards for different users, so I set the name of the user as a parameter and use purrr::walk() to loop rmarkdown::render() over my list of users. I know that Quarto isn't just an R thing, so is there still a similar render function I can loop in R for these Quarto Dashboards?

[@dexterrity]

hey that purr:walk() function looks handy, thanks for mentioning your use case too.

[@IbrahimKwakuDuah]

Yes there is. Do quarto:: There's a render function

[@rayflyers]

​@@dexterrityYou're welcome. purrr::walk() runs a for loop and doesn't return the output, which is useful for write/render functions because I don't need a return value in R after I save out a new file separately.

[@rayflyers]

​@@IbrahimKwakuDuahWill do. Thank you!

[@idrissadabo8015]

Is it possible to have html output with syntax and dashboard in the same quarto file ?

[@brynhumberstone]

Does this mean there is no longer a need to learn shiny in order to make interactive dashboards?

[@CoenEisma]

You never had to with flexdashboard and crosstalk* 😊 * Given that the data is pre processed and not to big (everything browser side vs server side with shiny)

[@caty863]

This is just *flexdashboard* that has been ported to Julia and Python. No new functionality added. So, if flexdashboard was already fulfilling your requirements (i.e. you don't need user interaction and reactive functionality), then you are fine. Otherwise, you need shiny pretty much, and its related dashboarding packages.

[@CaribouDataScience]

Can Quarto create word docs?

[@PositPBC]

Yes - see the documentation here: quarto.org/docs/reference/formats/docx.html

[@CaribouDataScience]

@@PositPBC Thanks, is dashboard working?

[@PositPBC]

​@@CaribouDataScience Yes, it's available in the 1.4 version of Quarto: quarto.org/docs/get-started/ Docs here: quarto.org/docs/dashboards/