Plan for Onboarding Day

Configure RStudio to communicate with Github

• Follow Plan here: Onboarding

RStudio Project Creation

• General RStudio Project Creation

• RStudio Project creation from Github Repository

Quarto Intro

.qmd editing in the visual editor

• Open Week 1 index.qmd.

• basic formatting

  • headers

  • italics

  • monospace

  • links

• yaml header

  • Lots of options: https://quarto.org/docs/reference/formats/html.html

  • title:

  • author:

  • date:

  • toc:

  • draft:

• the _metadata file

• the _quarto file

• Code chunks

1+1

[1] 2

Render

Under the Build tab, clicking “Render Website” will render the whole website as a preview. The actual html pages etc are created in the _site folder by default.

Visual Mode Goodies

• Forward slash / to bring up insert palette at the start of a new paragraph, or ⌘+/ or CMD+/ for inline options.

  • e.g. images, tables, footnotes

Tricking out RStudio

Under Tools>Global Options there are a few things you might really want to customize, including

• Appearance: Will change the appearance and color themes of RStudio

• RMarkdown: Under the Citations tab, you can connect RStudio up to your Zotero