With Quarto Coming, is R Markdown Going Away? No. | /en/2022/04/quarto-r-markdown/

[utterances-bot]

With Quarto Coming, is R Markdown Going Away? No.

https://yihui.org/en/2022/04/quarto-r-markdown/

[prncevince]

If you present a .txt file, that will probably become the new trend. Great post as always.

[drfurtado]

Presenting with .txt? I will give it a try. My students may learn something about p-value (slide 10) instead of trying to figure out what I meant when I showed an image of a cat on my Title slide....
... Slide 10:
Student X - Did you see the cat in the title slide?
Student Y - Yes, weird right?
Student X - Super!

[yihui]

Cats can live in .txt, too: https://www.asciiart.eu/animals/cats You are welcome! :)

[giscus-bot]

Guest *Dieter Menne* @ 2022-04-30 09:03:12 originally posted:

The summary I have been waiting for - being confused about To Quarto or Not to Quarto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_texts_of_Shakespeare%27s_works)

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Guest *Andy Field* @ 2022-05-02 10:38:43 originally posted:

I've been using xaringan for a few years (and I like it - well done!) but I do end up hacking it about a lot to do extra ninja stuff. I feel with Quarto I should maybe switch to revealjs (I'm not a minimalist). Currently that would 'only' entail converting 20 lectures (because they get updated every year). (In R) both are created from the same markdown, correct? So, what are the key things (if any) that might break if someone tried to render a markdown file created for xaringan using quarto's format: revealjs?

[yihui]

As mentioned in this post, remark.js's Markdown is different with Pandoc's Markdown. Features specific to remark.js won't work for reveal.js, such as slide attributes of the from "attr: value" (e.g., background images), spans and divs using the .class[] syntax, and the two dashes (--) for incremental content, etc.

Originally posted on 2022-05-02 13:43:13

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Guest *Mohamad Ghassany* @ 2022-05-02 14:44:06 originally posted:

Hi Yihui, I discovered Quarto last week and was convinced easily to switch my bookdowns to it. Did a quick test and worked like charm. I had problems recently with my bookdowns (with the left menu) and never had the time to investigate it. I appreciated the multiple parameters to edit the theme, and I appreciate the integration of Observable JS, I'm looking forward to add some interactive content to my books.

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Guest *Emil Begtrup-Bright* @ 2022-05-03 04:55:13 originally posted:

Im quite familiar with rmarkdown for documents but now I'm looking to learn a tool for presentations. I was almost convinced to learn quarto and revealjs instead of Xaringan, but now I'm in doubt again! Damnit

[ppreshant]

Would love to know what tool you picked and how it had worked out 🙂

I made xaringan slides for my stats course and fond it difficult to incorporate it properly into the quarto website.. So I'm at quarto slides now 😅

[yihui]

For quarto websites, I think you can publish any files to the site if you reference them on any quarto pages or specify them as resources to be copied to the publish dir (e.g., _site): https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-tools.html#site-resources

[giscus-bot]

Guest *Bryan Whiting* @ 2022-06-15 22:12:45 originally posted:

Thanks for the writeup! That Rhakim plot resonated with me. I started with Jekyll, moved to blogdown, found my site broke after a year of neglect and moved 6 mo ago to distill only to discover quarto this week. Hopefully my journey ends with quarto and I stop writing (and reading) blog posts about why i (and others) switched blogging frameworks.

Your point about Hugo's speed is the only thing that I haven't liked about Distill. Seems like quarto renders the whole site from scratch, but I don't quite know what's happening. Is there a design in the future where quarto will only re-render files that have changed?

[yihui]

Yes, quarto's design does only re-render files that have changed. If it doesn't, it's probably a bug (but I guess such an obvious bug should be very unlikely).

Originally posted on 2022-06-22 14:59:50

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访客 *Yao Liao* @ 2022-08-05 00:34:49 写道：

Hi, 老谢。
我用中文说。不知道官方这是搞什么鬼。为什么非要弄出个这么个玩意。

[yihui]

一统 R/Python/Julia/JavaScript 江湖。

——原帖发布于 2022-08-05 03:14:05

[darylz]

"it is by design that each Quarto book chapter file is rendered in a new session" -- this means when writing a book, all chapters should be in a single .qmd file if reference across chapter is necessary? Or manual merge before render is needed.

[yihui]

No, chapters can be in different .qmd files. I'm not sure what you mean by "reference across chapter". If you mean cross-references of figures, tables, etc., they will still work even if the reference target is not in the current .qmd file. If you mean referencing objects (R, Python, etc.), that won't work unless you save/load these objects by yourself.

[darylz]

"If you mean cross-references of figures, tables, etc., they will still work even if the reference target is not in the current .qmd file" Does it also work for the cross-ref to a chapter/section/subsection in a different .qmd file?

[yihui]

Yes.

[darylz]

Thanks.

[ppreshant]

Thanks for the tip! I will try that out.

[ArunKoundinya]

Hi,

comments:
giscus:
repo: < my repo>

When adding this and rendering locally; it is giving error. How to render locally and publish directly to github from local machine rather rendering on github. Please help.

[dorinstanciu]

I am always blown away of how humble this amazing person, Yihui Xie, is...
Despite standing shoulder to shoulder to all GOATS, he is always, always supportive, positive, and most important, humble.
I have seen him counseling countless individuals, regardless of how lame the question was.
I am grateful to have benefited from his work and advice. And I hope he'll continue being the person that he is.
My message here is simply to say Thank You! And to say what many of us think but doesn't get out there as much as should, Rmd still rules. Perhaps Quarto will win some newbies and Pythonistas on its side, but objectively, at the moment, it is just a child on steroids. Rmd is a versed warrior, scarred and limping at times, but unafraid of learning new styles :)