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The intent of this course is to provide an introduction of Quarto forintermediate to advanced R users seeking to develop automated reports.We will present on the basics of Quarto. After an introduction, we willwalk through the three primary components of a Quarto file: the YMLmetdata, text, and code blocks. After describing each component, weoffer brief exercises that provide participants with time to explore howthese components customize documents. It is our hope that participantswill leave with foundational skills required to create a Quarto report.

The learning goals are to:

• Introduce Quarto and it’s applications
• Describe the three components of a Quarto file: QML metadata, text,and code blocks
• Provide opportunities to explore the components of a Quarto filethrough in-class exercises

FWS staff with experience using R who are curious to learn how to authorQuarto documents.

1. From FWS Apps-To-Go, install:

• R 4.4.2
• RStudio 2024.09.1

2. Open a new RStudio session.
3. Download the exercise materials. This function creates a new RStudio project called "intro-to-quarto-exercises-main".

usethis::use_course("https://github.com/USFWS/intro-to-quarto-exercises/archive/refs/heads/main.zip")

4. Open this new RStudio project, if it's not already open.
5. Install the R package dependencies:

source("install_packages.R")

Jacob Cochran, Lower Great Lakes Fish andWildlife Conservation Office
McCrea Cobb, Refuge Inventory andMonitoring Program, Alaska
Jason Ross, Fish and Aquatic ConservationProgram
Emma Schillerstrom, Refuge Inventory and Monitoring Program, Alaska
Jonah Withers, Fisheries and EcologicalServices, Alaska

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