What is inside Quarto in more detail

How does Quarto work?

🤷
I press Render, a document appears, and I believe that anything happening in between could be actual magic!
knitr executes the code and converts .qmd to .md; Pandoc renders the .md file to the output format you want
What do you think?

🤷 ✔️
“I press knit, a document appears, and I believe that anything happening in between could be actual magic.” 🧙‍♂️)
knitr executes the code and converts .Rmd to .md; Pandoc renders the .md file to the output format you want. ✔️

“YAML Ain’t Markup Language”

It’s a language that isn’t R or markdown!

---
key: value
---

Basic YAML that is generated from a template

---
title: "Report"
author: "Zoë Turner"
date: "01/08/2023"
format: html
---

Can be extended for certain options

---
title: "Report"
author: "Zoë Turner"
date: "01/08/2023"
format: 
  html:
    toc: true
---

In covid-analysis.qmd do the following:

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---
title: "Untitled"
format: 
  html:
    toc: true
    toc-location: left
    code-tools: true
---

Adding embed-resources: true to the YAML removes a generated folder of the file name that includes supporting files.
This makes it easier to share with others as only the html needs to be sent.
Self contained from RMarkdown also works - Quarto is backwards compatible.

Date formats in Quarto:

date: today
date-format: "D MMMM YYYY"

Adding a dark theme to a report is possible with the following YAML:

format:
  html:
    theme:
      light: default
      dark: darkly

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