Transitioning to Quarto: A Data Scientist's Toolkit
In a recent YouTube presentation, Daniel Chen discussed his experience transitioning from RMarkdown and Jupyter Notebooks to Quarto. This post distills the core concepts and quantitative elements discussed in the talk. Literate programming allows data scientists to interweave code and prose text within a single document, facilitating better reporting and documentation. Quarto serves as the successor to RMarkdown, bringing multiple enhancements and broader functionality. The Basics of RMarkdown vs. Quarto RMarkdown has been a foundational tool for data scientists, but Quarto builds on its strengths with the following upgrades: