Course Materials for Reproducible Reports with Quarto and R Markdown: A Short Course

These are the course materials for the course on Reproducible Reports with Quarto and R Markdown offered through Code Horizons. This repository contains a variety of example documents and scripts that we will use throughout the course. Participants should download the latest release in the Releases section. Alternatively, participants can clone or fork the repository if they are familiar with using git and GitHub.

Preparation for the Course

1. Ensure that you have RStudio and R installed and updated to a recent version.
2. Download and install the Quarto command line interface for your operating system.
3. Download or clone these course materials to your local machine.
4. Run/source the install_scripts.R script contained in these course materials to install any required R packages for the course. You can do this by opening it in RStudio and selecting the "Source" button at the top of the document viewer panel.

Full Documentation of Materials

Files

• example.qmd - The main Quarto document that we will use as an example throughout the course. It contains "lorem ipsum" text, figures, tables, references, and footnotes to mimic a real research report.
• install_scripts.R - An R script used to install all of the necessary R packages for the course. Participants should run this script prior to the beginning of the course.
• markdown_course_materials.Rproj - An Rproj file for this repository. Double-clicking this file in your computer's filesystem manager should open RStudio in the correct working directory.
• references.bib - A bibtex .bib file containing references used by the example.qmd document.

Subdirectories

• _extensions - Directory containing installed Quarto extensions that we will use.
• bib-styles - Directory containing Citation Style Language (CSL) files for use with bibliographies and citation.
• css - Directory containing CSS files that we will use to customize HTML output.
• example-blog - Directory containing files for a Quarto blog website.
• example-presentation - Directory containing files for creating a presentation using Reveal JS.
• input - Directory containing supplementary datasets that are used by some of the documents created in the course.