Detailed Schedule
All sessions will take place in room 4.06 at the fourth floor of the University and City Library, Cologne (back entrance, via Kerperner Str.).
Please, make sure to register for on-site participation.
You can listen in via Zoom, as well, but we won’t be able to provide technical support to the online audience. To get the zoom link, please, register here.
Thursday, Jan. 22nd
10.00 – 11.30 Intro to Quarto – Papers and Slides
▸ Gabriele Schwiertz
This session will be an introduction to using Quarto for academic writing and producing slides. No prior knowledge is assumed.
💻 For this hands-on session, you will need your laptop with R, RStudio and Quarto installed, see installation instructions.
14.00 – 15.30 Themes, templates, pandoc – style your Quarto
▸ Denis Arnold
The basic styling in Quarto documents looks professional but sometimes you want to adapt the look to your own taste or to match corporate designs. This session will dive deeper into styling your Quarto output.
💻 For this hands-on session, you will need your laptop with R, RStudio and Quarto installed, see installation instructions.
16.00 – 17.30 ReproducibiliTea: Quarto/RMarkdown for reproducible research and academic writing
▸ Aviad Albert, Elen Le Foll & Gina Reinhard
In this special ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas session, we discuss the many advantages of engaging with literate programming - the idea of combining text, code, and code outputs in a single reproducible document - for academic writing and publishing. Elen Le Foll will provide an introduction to literate programming with hands-on examples from published linguistics studies. Aviad Albert will share his experiences of writing his PhD thesis in R Markdown (the predecessor of Quarto), while Gina Reinhard will share insights about the process of writing her M.A. thesis in Quarto. Tea and biscuits will be served.
💻 For this hands-on session, you can bring your laptop with R, RStudio and Quarto installed, see installation instructions.
Friday, Jan. 23rd
10.00 – 12.30 Quarto for teaching and Open Educational Resources
▸ Elen Le Foll, Andreas Mühlichen & Gabriele Schwiertz
This session focuses on the versatile uses of Quarto for educational purposes.
Elen Le Foll will explain and demonstrate how to create and publish teaching materials in various formats, including with interactive quiz questions. She will also show how a course website featuring student project work can easily be built using Quarto.
Andreas Mühlichen will present “C³RDM Single Source Teaching material” that the team uses for their research data management courses created with Quarto and managed in GitLab.nrw.
Gabriele Schwiertz will give a short demonstration on how to integrate quarto output into Ilias-Edulabs.
💻 For this session, you can bring your laptop with R, RStudio and Quarto installed if you want to try things out straight away, see installation instructions.
14.00 – 16.00 Using Quarto with git
▸ Denis Arnold
This session focuses on practical workflows for combining Quarto projects with version control, building on prior introductory sessions. Participants will learn how to manage changes, collaborate, and publish Quarto outputs efficiently using git.nrw.
(Artwork by Allison Horst from the “Hello, Quarto” keynote by Julia Lowndes and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, first presented at the RStudio Conference 2022).”