Beautiful reports and presentations with Quarto | Led by Tom Mock, RStudio
Quarto is a powerful tool for authoring reproducible computational documents in R, Python or Julia. Quarto can also help with sharing your results to business stakeholders across your company. This talk will provide an overview of Quarto's implementation of revealjs for interactive presentations and HTML/PDF documents for static reports.
Content website: rstd.io/quarto-reports
Timestamps:
2:55 - Start of session
4:10 - Visual editor in RStudio
6:20 - Parameters to create different variations of a report
15:30 - Unified syntax across different output formats
18:01 - Pandoc fenced divs
20:10 - Tabsets
22:22 - Pandoc bracketed spans
24:30 - Footnotes
26:30 - Layout image inline with paragraphs / image into "gutter" column margin
29:23 - Hide all code
29:50 - Code tools (Fold code, source code)
34:12 - Code highlighting
37:03 - HTML Appearance
38:00 - Bootswatch themes
38:43 - PDF Articles
42:05 - Presentations (revealjs (HTML), PowerPoint (MS Office), beamer (LaTeX, PDF))
45:06 - Creating slides
47:53 - Multiple columns
48:28 - Secret Tip (Alt + Click to Zoom in to a section)
49:24 - Absolute Position
51:04 - Presentation themes
52:44 - Footer/Logo
54:01 - Slide Background
57:01 - Custom classes
58:35 - End slide with helpful links (all shared here: rstd.io/quarto-reports)
This meetup is Part 3 in our Quarto series:
Part 1: Welcome to Quarto Workshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvi5uXQMvu4
Part 2: Building a Blog with Quarto: https://youtu.be/CVcvXfRyfE0
For more about Quarto: quarto.org
Resources discussed:
Visual editor: https://quarto.org/docs/visual-editor/
Parameters: https://quarto.org/docs/computations/parameters.html
Tabsets: https://quarto.org/docs/interactive/layout.html#tabset-panel
Fenced Divs and Bracketed spans: https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/markdown-basics.html#divs-and-spans
Footnotes: https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/footnotes-and-citations.html
Figures and figure layouts: https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/figures.html#complex-layouts
Code execution options: https://quarto.org/docs/computations/execution-options.html
Code chunk format options: https://quarto.org/docs/reference/formats/html.html#code
Code appearance: https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/html-code.html#appearance
Code highlighting light/dark: https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/html-code.html#appearance
Function links in code chunks with downlit: https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/html-code.html#code-linking
HTML Themes: https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/html-themes.html
PDF formatting options: https://quarto.org/docs/reference/formats/pdf.html#title-author
PDF journal templates: https://quarto.org/docs/journals/templates.html
Presentations: https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/index.html
Revealjs Options: https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/revealjs/
Advanced Revealjs (absolute positioning, layout helpers like r-stack): https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/revealjs/advanced.html
Revealjs themes and customizing: https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/revealjs/themes.html
Revealjs footer & logo: https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/revealjs/index.html#footer-logo
Inline span text formatting:
Emil Hvitfeldt’s Slidecraft 101: Colors and Fonts, https://www.emilhvitfeldt.com/post/slidecraft-colors-fonts/
Meghan Hall’s Quarto Slides, https://meghan.rbind.io/blog/quarto-slides/
Andrew Heiss’ Quarto slides on APIs and webscraping with R, https://github.com/andrewheiss/2022-seacen
Speaker bio:
Thomas is the Customer Enablement Lead at RStudio, helping RStudio’s customers be as successful as possible. He is deeply involved in the global data science community, sharing tips on RStats Twitter (find him at @thomas_mock), as co-founder of TidyTuesday, a weekly Data Science learning challenge, and presenting on various Data Science topics on YouTube or at conferences.
For upcoming meetups: rstd.io/community-events
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