Overview

Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system that allows you to create and share interactive documents, presentations, dashboards, and reports. It does not provide a standalone graphical user interface, but is built to integrate with tools like Visual Studio Code, Jupyter, RStudio, etc. It supports Markdown and executable code blocks in multiple programming languages, such as R, Python, and Julia.

Installing Quarto

Windows Users

• Go to the Quarto downloads page
• Click on the blue button Download Quarto CLI to download the Windows Installer for the latest Quarto release.
• Open the installer from your download history. A set-up wizard will guide you through the installation process.
• Follow the instructions, clicking Next as required.
• Close the setup wizard once the installation is completed.

Mac Users

• Go to the Quarto downloads page
• Download the macOS Installer package (quarto-{version}-macos.pkg).
• Navigate to your download folder and double-click the .pkg file to start the installer.
• Follow the prompts in the installation wizard.
• Once the installation is complete, click Close.

Linux/Ubuntu users

• Visit the Quarto downloads page
• Choose the right package for your Linux distribution.
• Open a terminal window. Use the package manager for your distribution to install the downloaded package. For Ubuntu, this typically involves running:

• bash

sudo dpkg -i quarto-{version}.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

Summary

Now that Quarto is installed, you can start using it to create a wide range of documents and presentations. Continue with this topic to learn how to begin working with Quarto and take advantage of its features!