Introduction to Quarto

R Workshop
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Katia Bulekova

Boston University

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Quarto Diagrams

Mermaid Diagrams

Quarto has native support for embedding Mermaid and Graphviz diagrams. This enables you to create flowcharts, sequence diagrams, state diagrams, gantt charts, and more using a plain text syntax inspired by markdown:

flowchart LR
  A[qmd] --> B(Knitr)
  A[qmd] --> C(Jupyter)
  B(Knitr) --> D[md]
  C(Jupyter) --> D[md]
  D[md] --> E(pandoc)
  E(pandoc) --> F(HTML)
  E(pandoc) --> G(PDF)
  E(pandoc) --> H(Word)
  E(pandoc) --> I{and more}
Figure 1: Mermaid Diagrams

Graphviz Diagrams

G qmd qmd Knitr Knitr qmd--Knitr Jupyter Jupyter qmd--Jupyter md md Knitr--md Jupyter--md pandoc pandoc md--pandoc HTML HTML pandoc--HTML PDF PDF pandoc--PDF Word Word pandoc--Word more more pandoc--more
Figure 2: Graphviz diagrams