Understanding Quarto Documents: Types, Formatting, and Creation

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Event Announcement: Unilorin R User Group Meetup Series

🎉 Event Theme: Understanding Quarto Documents: An In-Depth Exploration of Their Types, Formatting and a Step-by-Step Guide to Creation 📅 Date: Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 1 PM WAT ⏰ Duration: 2-hour session 📍 Venue: Zoom

Join us for another insightful session in the Unilorin R User Group Meetup Series! This event is perfect for anyone interested in creating professional, reproducible documents using Quarto—a powerful publishing system that integrates seamlessly with R. Whether you’re a beginner just starting with R Markdown or a more experienced user looking to level up with Quarto, this session will provide a comprehensive guide from concepts to creation.

🔍 What You’ll Learn:

Introduction to Quarto Documents

Get familiar with what makes Quarto unique and how it compares to R Markdown. Types of Quarto Documents Explore various document types—presentations, reports, dashboards, and websites—and when to use each.

Formatting and Customization

Learn how to structure your Quarto documents, apply themes, work with code chunks, and add citations and tables of contents.

Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Quarto Document

Follow a hands-on walkthrough to create your first Quarto document, including YAML setup, writing content, rendering, and sharing your work.

Bonus Tips & Best Practices

Gain insights into publishing workflows, project organization, and reproducible research with Quarto.

This interactive and beginner-friendly session is designed to equip you with the skills to create stylish, functional, and reproducible documents for your academic, professional, or personal projects.

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Let’s build together with R and Quarto. See you there!

Speaker

Yanina Bellini Saibene

Yanina Bellini Saibene, known as Yani for short, is a distinguished leader in open science, data mining, and community building. Currently, she is the OpenSci Community Manager. She also serves as the R‐Ladies Project Lead and holds professorships at Universidad Autral and at AgTech diploma programs at UCES, UCA, and UDE. With an M.S. in Data Mining and Knowledge Management, her academic and professional journey underscores her expertise in data science and computing.

Her extensive career spans roles as a researcher at INTA, adjunct professor at UNAB, and opic Editor at the Journal of Open Source Education. Yani’s work in remote sensing and open data has earned her prestigious recognitions—including GitHub Star honors (2022–2025) and awards such as the CIALP Technological Innovation Award and the National e-Government Award. She co-founded influential initiatives such as LatinR, MetaDocencia, and R-Ladies Santa Rosa.

A committed advocate for inclusive and multilingual education, Yani actively contributes to multiple boards and committees, including The Carpentries Board of Directors, R-Ladies Board, R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee, and Sociedad Argentina de Informática (SADIO). Her career, which began in a small Argentine town with an early passion for computing, reflects her lifelong dedication to teaching, innovation, and the empowerment of communities through technology. For further engagement, she is accessible on Mastodon.