Quarto has many improvements over RMarkdown, plus a couple of limitations, one being that you cannot pass R objects as parameters to a Quarto document in the way the RMarkdown would accept them. Quarto receives parameters serialized as yaml, so only text, numeric, boolean (received as TRUE="yes" and …

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Building my First Quarto Shortcode Extension Quarto is a scientific publishing system used to build documents, presentations, books and websites. Quarto extensions are a powerful way to extend the behavior of Quarto. These extensions are built using Lua, a language that I do not have much familiarity with but, building …

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Serverless Shiny Inspired by Max Kuhn's presentation at R/Pharma today I tried out embedding shiny a app within a Quarto website and hosting it on GitHub pages. The app itself is a chemistry quiz built to help my son who had a school test coming up. By running it within a Quarto website it's available for him to use on …

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An earlier post demonstrated how the jupyter SAS kernel could be used to run SAS from within a Quarto document. This post demonstrates the saspy library and how SAS can be incorporated into Quarto, ultimately passing data to an interactive observable visualization. Setup and Configure saspy needs to be installed and …

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Quarto is a powerful web publishing system based on Pandoc. Working with jupyter kernels expands the number of languages that Quarto can work with. In this example we'll add SAS capability to Quarto. Setup First install the saspy and the SAS kernel packages. 1pip install saspy 2pip install sas_kernel Once installed the …

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Quarto is the new publishing system from RStudio based on Pandoc. It's a powerful tool for publising from R, Python and Julia, working in a very similar fashion to RMarkdown. There are several great blog posts already highlighting features of Quarto and thoughts on changing from RMarkdown to Quarto. Recently, I've been …

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