Literate Analysis with Quarto

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Combine prose and code in one document! Literate analysis is a fundamental tool for making your work reproducible.
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Description

More often than not, computational analysis is written in a borderline incomprehensible way, even to the person who originally wrote the code. Quarto is a tool that allows you to combine prose with code—making it possible to do analysis and write reports all in one place. This course introduces the concept of literate analysis and explores the main functionalities of a Quarto document combining R, the programming language, and markdown, a set of text formatting directives.

Prerequisites

  • Basic knowledge of R and RStudio
  • If you are new to R, consider taking our Intro to Programming in R using RStudio lesson

Learning Goals

  • Introduce Quarto as a tool for literate analysis
  • Learn markdown syntax and run R code in Quarto
  • Understand the “environments” and file paths when working with Quarto documents

Duration

2 hours