Try-it-together: Getting Started with Quarto for Academic Writing

A hands-on introduction to Quarto in RStudio — Markdown basics, integrating narrative, R code, and citations to produce polished, reproducible documents.
2024
workshop
try-it-together
tools
Organiser

SMU Researcher Club

Event Date

October 15, 2024

At a glance

Date Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Time 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Location Learning Lab 1, Li Ka Shing Library
Instructor Dong Danping, Senior Librarian, Research & Data Services, SMU Libraries
TipPart of the Try-it-Together: Writing and Publishing Tools Series

About this session

This hands-on workshop introduced researchers to Quarto in RStudio. Participants learned Markdown and Quarto basics, enabling seamless integration of narrative text, R code, and citations into a single document.

By the end of the session, participants were able to produce polished documents in HTML, DOCX, or PDF formats that weave narrative and code into reproducible research documents for their intended audience. This workshop was suitable for beginners and those looking to refresh their skills.

Note

Pre-requisite: basic familiarity with R is highly recommended for this workshop. Participants were required to bring their laptop.