Workshop: "Reproducible manuscripts with Quarto"

When: 28. June 2024, 16:00-18:00
Where: In person at Leopoldstr 13 room 3322 
Language: English. Questions can be asked in both English and German
Registration: no registration is necessary

Have you always wanted to make your manuscripts reproducible but got stuck during the process? In this flipped classroom workshop, we will help you solve the individual problems you have encountered when writing your own manuscript with Quarto.

Quarto (the successor of R Markdown) is a popular open-source software for writing reproducible scientific manuscripts. It can also produce websites, blogs, books, presentations, dashboards and much more. Quarto can be used together with R, Python or Julia. If you want to learn how to use Quarto and write reproducible scientific manuscripts with R, we have prepared a self-paced online tutorial for you.

Before the workshop:

It is intended that you familiarize yourself with how Quarto works and have started your own reproducible manuscript before attending the workshop. If you have never worked with Quarto, R Markdown, or Jupyter Notebooks before, you should plan at least one workday for preparation. The following sections of the self-paced online tutorial are particularly relevant for you to be able to create a reproducible scientific manuscript:

• Quarto Tutorials: Companion to the beginner tutorials on the official Quarto website.
• Exercise: APA 7 Manuscripts: An introduction to the Quarto extension apaquarto , which allows formatting Quarto documents as APA 7 manuscripts.
• Optional: Exercise: Quarto Manuscripts: Quarto Manuscripts enable you to create a website that showcases your manuscript and provides a bundle with all the code and materials necessary to reproduce your manuscript.

During the workshop:

There will only be minimal input from our side during the workshop, as you have already familiarized yourself with Quarto beforehand so we can focus on your individual problems. After a brief welcome, we will collect the types of problems you encountered when trying to write your own manuscript and divide you into groups, so you can start helping each other. We will try to answer your individual questions and assist with the problems you encountered. When your problem is solved, you can continue working on your own manuscript during the workshop. We will wrap up with a short summary on commonly encountered challenges.

Target audience: Scientists and students who want to write a reproducible manuscript with Quarto and have started their first reproducible manuscript. If you have some experience with Quarto yourself and want to assist you colleagues during the workshop, you are very welcome as well!

Prerequisites: Participants have worked through a Quarto tutorial before the workshop, have started to write their own manuscript in Quarto and have encountered questions or unsolved problems.

Max. number of participants: Until the room is full