Introduction to Quarto Workshop
The UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst is running a one-day online workshop on 22 July 2026 introducing Quarto, an open-source scientific and technical publishing system designed to support reproducible working practices.
The workshop teaches participants how to integrate code, results, and narrative text into a single document. Quarto supports multiple programming languages including R, Python, Julia, and Observable JavaScript. The session is taught using R and RStudio, though the concepts apply across all supported languages. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to transform raw data into a polished, reproducible report (HTML, Word, or PDF) where the text and analysis stay in sync.
Audience: Researchers and research support staff in academia or industry, and others who regularly produce reports with data analysis. Some familiarity with the layout of RStudio and beginner-level knowledge of R is assumed.
What you’ll learn:
- Setting up a Quarto project in RStudio
- Text styling, headers, and citations
- Embedding R code chunks and controlling their output
- Inserting dynamic statistics (e.g. means or p-values) directly into prose so numbers update automatically
- Rendering work to HTML, PDF, and Word formats
Cost: £50
Format: Online (limited to 30 places)
More information & registration: digitalskillscatalyst.ac.uk/news/2026-01-13-quarto.html
For questions, contact the Catalyst team at research-digital-skills@york.ac.uk.