Quarto is a scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc. Quarto documents are authored using Markdown, an easy to write plain text format. You can weave together narrative text and code to produce elegantly formatted output as documents, web pages, blog posts, books and more.
Quarto is also a multi-language, next generation version of R Markdown from Posit, with many new features and capabilities. Like R Markdown, Quarto uses knitr to execute R code, and is therefore able to render most existing Rmd files without modification.
Quarto includes native support for Observable JS, a set of JavaScript enhancements created by the author of D3. Observable JS uses a reactive execution model, and is especially well suited for interactive data exploration and analysis.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Author using Jupyter notebooks or with plain text markdown in your favorite editor. Combine Jupyter notebooks with flexible options to produce production quality output in a wide variety of formats. Author using traditional notebook UIs or with a plain text markdown representation of notebooks.
- Create dynamic content with Python, R, Julia, and Observable. Quarto executes Julia code via the IJulia Jupyter kernel, enabling you to author in plain text (as shown below) or render existing Jupyter notebooks.
- Publish reproducible, production quality articles, presentations, dashboards, websites, blogs, and books in HTML, PDF, MS Word, ePub, and more.
- Share knowledge and insights organization-wide by publishing to Posit Connect, Confluence, or other publishing systems.
- Write using Pandoc markdown, including equations, citations, crossrefs, figure panels, callouts, advanced layout, and more.
Website: datasette.io
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Posit Software, PBC
License: MIT License
Quarto is written in JavaScript and TypeScript. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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