Boston useR | In-Person Meetup | Quarto - Presented by J.J. Allaire
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Quarto - a new open-source scientific and technical publishing system
Led by J.J. Allaire
*our first in-person meetup in 2+ years! so excited to see you all!
Agenda:
- 5:30: Welcome / refreshments / chat with other attendees
- 6:00 - 7:00: Quarto presentation - led by J.J. Allaire
- 7:00: Q&A
- Followed by an optional after-party celebration of being back together at Cisco Brewers pop-up in the Seaport
Abstract:
J.J. will talk about Quarto, a new open-source scientific and technical publishing system. The goal of Quarto is to make the process of creating and collaborating on scientific and technical documents dramatically better. Quarto is from the same team that created R Markdown, but unlike R Markdown, doesn’t have a dependency or requirement for R. Quarto was developed to be multilingual, beginning with R, Python, Javascript, and Julia, with the idea that it will work even for languages that don’t yet exist.
Quarto combines the functionality of R Markdown, bookdown, distill, xaringian, etc into a single consistent system with “batteries included” that reflects everything we’ve learned from R Markdown over the past 10 years. In addition, many new features are available including extensions for cross-references, figure panels, callouts, advanced page layout, and more. While it is a “new” system, it should also be noted that it is highly compatible with existing content: you can render most R Markdown documents and Jupyter notebooks unmodified with Quarto. J.J. will discuss the philosophy and design of the system, demonstrate its capabilities, and talk about future directions for development.
Bio:
J.J. Allaire is a software engineer and entrepreneur who has created a wide variety of products including ColdFusion, Open Live Writer, Lose It!, and RStudio.
*Note this is an in-person meetup and will not be recorded. There will be other options to hear this talk (in-person and virtually) at the RStudio Conference soon though! [www.rstudio.com/conference/]
Thank you to Vertex Pharmaceuticals for hosting!
Please note that you will need a government issued ID to check into Vertex security and that you should enter at 50 Northern Ave. All visitors will be required to attest to being fully vaccinated and symptom free before entering the facility.
After the meetup, we'd love to celebrate at the Cisco Brewers Seaport pop-up just a minute walk from Vertex. [85 Northern Ave, Boston, MA 02210]
