Publishing

PDF Accessibility and Standards

Quarto 1.9 brings PDF accessibility and standards support, building on new tagging features in LaTeX and Typst

Gordon Woodhull

posit::conf(2025) Quarto talks

Videos of talks from posit::conf(2025) are posted, and you can find them all here!

Andrew Holz

posit::conf(2025) Quarto workshop materials

At posit::conf(2025) we hosted two Quarto workshops: Branded Websites, Presentations, Dashboards, and PDFs with Quarto; and Extending Quarto. The materials from both workshops are freely available for anyone to learn from or use in their own teaching

Charlotte Wickham

Quarto Wizard 1.0.0: Democratising Quarto Extension Management

Introducing a game-changing extension for VS Code and Positron that transforms Quarto extensions management with an intuitive GUI for extensions and templates

Quarto 1.8

Quarto 1.8 improves brand support, introduces brand extensions, adds HTML accessibility checks, and gives access to execution context

Charlotte Wickham

quarto R package v1.5.0: Streamlined Workflows for R Users

The quarto R package 1.5.0 brings powerful new features for passing R values to Quarto metadata, inserting Markdown in HTML tables, working with R scripts, building paths from Quarto projects, and automating Quarto CLI from R

Christophe Dervieux

From One Notebook to Many Reports: Parameterized reports with the jupyter engine

Learn how to transform a single Jupyter notebook into a parameterized report generator that automatically creates customized outputs for different scenarios

Charlotte Wickham

How to use GitHub Codespaces to simplify your Quarto workshops

In this post, I’ll teach you the basics of GitHub Codespaces and how to use them to make it easier to teach using Quarto

Quarto 1.7

Quarto 1.7 brings big improvements to dark mode along with updates to Typst, Pandoc, a new version shortcode, and improvements to the julia engine

Charlotte Wickham

Tip - use Positron to choose colors for your project brand

Use Positron’s integrated color picker for an easy way to choose colors for your next project’s _brand.yml

Carlos Scheidegger

Use meta + include to customize reusable content

The “Includes” feature in Quarto lets you efficiently reuse content across multiple files. Combined with the “meta” shortcode, it enables you to set precise, file-specific values

Quarto website video series

Build a personal website with Quarto by following this four-part video series on YouTube

Charlotte Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Quarto 1.6

Quarto 1.6 supports unified branding across formats, updates to RevealJS, a new shortcode to reorder content, a landscape page block, and more. There are also a couple of breaking changes that will affect a small number of users

Charlotte Wickham

Quarto dashboards video series

Learn how to build a Quarto dashboard with a three-part video series

Charlotte Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

posit::conf(2024) Quarto talks

Videos of talks from posit::conf(2024) are posted, we’ve compiled a playlist of Quarto talks for you!

WebAssembly roundup part 3: Quarto Live 0.1.1

Quarto Live is a new Quarto extension that uses WebAssembly to bring interactive examples and dynamic code exercises to documents. Create highly engaging interactive elements for readers using standard Quarto markdown syntax

George Stagg

posit::conf(2024) Quarto workshop materials

Back in August, we hosted three Quarto workshops at posit::conf(2024); the materials from those workshops are available to learn and teach from!

Quarto 1.5

Quarto 1.5 improves Typst support, has some website enhancements like draft handling and announcement bars, adds a native Julia engine, and adds a couple of shortcodes for generating placeholder content

Charlotte Wickham

Beautiful Tables in Typst

You can use HTML Tables with CSS styling in Typst via Quarto

Gordon Woodhull

Quarto workshops at posit::conf(2024)

On August 12, we’re hosting a day of workshops featuring three dedicated to Quarto at posit::conf(2024) in Seattle

Quarto for Reproducible Medical Manuscripts

R/Medicine webinar on Quarto manuscripts

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Quarto on Hugging Face

You can now host Quarto sites on Hugging Face using the new Quarto Space template

Quarto 1.4

Quarto 1.4 brings new formats for dashboards and Typst, a new manuscript project type, a cross-reference overhaul, Shiny for Python support, and a ton of other updates

Charlotte Wickham

Quarto Dashboards Demonstration

Video demo of Quarto v1.4’s new dashboard feature with Charles Teague

Andrew Holz

ASA Traveling Courses on Quarto

Series of workshops for learning Quarto with R and RStudio, aimed primarily at R Markdown users

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Quarto for Academics

A video highlighting some of Quarto’s features that are especially useful for academics, as educators and as researchers

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Get Started with Quarto

A new video for getting started with Quarto using R and RStudio

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Quarto 1.3

Quarto 1.3 brings new features, improvements, and fixes

Charlotte Wickham

Confluence Publishing

Quarto 1.3 adds support for publishing individual documents, and projects containing many documents to Atlassian Confluence

Charlotte Wickham

Jupyter Notebook Cell Embedding

Quarto 1.3 adds support for embedding cells from a Jupyter Notebook into a Quarto document via an embed shortcode. In HTML documents, links are automatically added that point to a rendered version of the external notebook

Charlotte Wickham

Multi-format Publishing

In Quarto 1.3, additional formats listed in HTML documents will automatically be linked in an “Other Formats” section near the top of the page

Charlotte Wickham

Code Annotation

In Quarto 1.3, you can add line based annotations to code chunks to highlight or explain parts of your code

Charlotte Wickham

Shinylive Extension

With Shinylive, you can embed Shiny for Python applications into Quarto documents and run the entire application (including the Python runtime) inside the user’s web browser

Winston Chang

Quarto Extensions

Quarto Extensions are a powerful way to modify or extend the behavior of Quarto, and can be created and distributed by anyone. Extension types include filters, shortcodes, and custom formats

Using Callouts

Callouts are an excellent way to draw extra attention to certain concepts, or to more clearly indicate that certain content is supplemental or applicable to only some scenarios

R Markdown Lesser-Known Tips & Tricks #2: Cleaning Up Your Code

In this series, we show you lesser-known tips and tricks to help you work more effectively and efficiently in R Markdown. This second post focuses on cleaning up your R Markdown code

Cheatsheet Updates

Many RStudio cheatsheets have been updated or reworked based on recent package updates, and we’ve updated the cheatsheet contribution process as well. You’ll also see some small changes to the cheatsheet website reflecting these changes

Announcing bookdown v0.23

The latest version of the bookdown package is now on CRAN. A highlight of the version 0.23 release is a new HTML book output format based on Bootstrap 4 called bs4_book(). This release also includes improved search, customizable 404 pages, and new project templates

Alison Hill, Christophe Dervieux, Yihui Xie

Latest news from the R Markdown family

Happy spring! In this post, we’ll share the latest news from the R Markdown family of packages so that you know all you need to know to take advantage of the newest features. New releases include the rmarkdown and pagedown packages, among others

Alison Hill, Christophe Dervieux, Yihui Xie

Distill it down

My experiences with building webpages and websites using some of the simpler R Studio tools

Announcing blogdown v1.0

The blogdown package is now on CRAN. Read on for highlights from the version 1.0 release, including smoother workflows, new checking functions to guide you into the pit of success, the ability to pin Hugo versions, better organization of content files via page bundles, and the new Markdown mode for R Markdown posts

Alison Hill, Christophe Dervieux, Yihui Xie

Latest News from the R Markdown Family

An end-of-2020 round-up of all the latest news from the R Markdown family of packages so that you know all you need to know to take advantage of the newest features

Alison Hill, Christophe Dervieux, Yihui Xie

(Re-)introducing Distill for R Markdown

We are proud to announce the latest release of the distill package is now on CRAN. This version contains a number of major upgrades including the introduction of themed articles and websites, search, and improved accessibility

Alison Hill, JJ Allaire

Learning learnr

Learning how to use and extend the learnr package

Emails from R: Blastula 0.3

learnr 0.10.0

learnr 0.10.0: new quiz question types including text boxes and drag-and-drop ranking

Barret Schloerke

Radix for R Markdown

Introducing Radix: an R Markdown format optimized for scientific communication with flexible layouts

JJ Allaire

The Revamped bookdown.org Website

The revamped bookdown.org website: browse, search, and contribute books written with bookdown

Announcing the R Markdown Book

Announcing R Markdown: The Definitive Guide, a comprehensive book on R Markdown and its extensions

reticulate: R interface to Python

Introducing reticulate: seamless interoperability between R and Python with automatic type conversion

JJ Allaire

Announcing blogdown: Create Websites with R Markdown

Announcing blogdown: create static websites with R Markdown and Hugo

Introducing learnr

Introducing learnr: create interactive R tutorials with exercises, quizzes, and videos

Announcing bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown

bookdown extends R Markdown for writing books with cross-references, citations, and multiple output formats

flexdashboard: Easy interactive dashboards for R

Introducing flexdashboard: create interactive dashboards with R Markdown, htmlwidgets, and optional Shiny components

RStudio Team

R Markdown v0.9.5

R Markdown 0.9.5 adds floating table of contents, code folding, tabbed sections, and five new HTML themes

RStudio Team

R Markdown Custom Formats

Overview of custom R Markdown formats (tufte, rticles, rmdformats) and how to create your own output formats

RStudio Team

New R Markdown articles section, plus .Rmd to .docx super powers!

New R Markdown articles section launched with tips for Word output: styles, margins, tables, and bibliographies

R Markdown v2

R Markdown v2: Pandoc-powered output to PDF, Word, HTML, and slides. Citations, tables, footnotes, and custom templates

Announcing RPubs: A New Web Publishing Service for R

Announcing RPubs: a free service to publish R Markdown documents to the web directly from RStudio

RStudio Team

MathJax Syntax Change

R Markdown MathJax syntax changes: equations now use $latex ...$ to avoid parsing ambiguities

RStudio Team

NYC Meetup: What’s Next for R Markdown

Join us June 5th in NYC for a meetup on R Markdown with Yihui Xie and Jeff Horner

RStudio Team