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  • Unit 1
    • Lesson 1: Intro to GitHub
    • Lesson 2: Creating your GitHub Profile README
    • Lesson 3: Markdown
    • Lesson 4: Additional Profile README Features
    • Lesson 5: Organizing Your Github Repository
  • Unit 2
    • Lesson 1: Intro to VSCode
    • Lesson 2: Intro to Quarto
    • Lesson 3: Git in VSCode
  • Unit 3
    • Lesson 1: Create Your First Website
    • Lesson 2: Hosting Your Website on GitHub Pages
    • Lesson 3: Subpages and Nav Bars
  • Unit 4
    • lesson 1: Using A Custom Domain
    • Lesson 2: Temp Title
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    • Customizing Website Appearance with CSS
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    • Embedding IFrames
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On this page

  • What is Quarto?
  • Installing Quarto
    • Step 01: Find and Download Quarto
    • Step 02: Install Quarto (For Windows)
    • Congratulations 🎉😎

Quarto Installation

What is Quarto?

Quarto is a dynamic open-source publishing system made to simplify the process of creating easily reproducible reports, articles, research, HTML, and other print and non-print documents. It is built on top of the exceptionally powerful Pandoc converter and uses a flavor of markdown. Quarto includes support for Python, Julia, and Observable among others.

Installing Quarto

Step 01: Find and Download Quarto

  • Navigate to the Quarto download page.

  • Or use this link to access a static download.

  • For windows, click on the large blue link at the top of the page and the download should start.

  • For Mac OS, scroll down and click on the download link for Mac OS.

Step 02: Install Quarto (For Windows)

  • Click on the downloaded msi file. The setup wizard will start.

  • Click next.

  • If you want all users on your computer to have access to Quarto select the radio button beside Install for all users of this machine, else, change nothing and just click next.

  • Click next.

  • Leave the install path as the default.

  • Click next.

  • The installation will start. Wait for it to complete (Please do not turn of your system)

  • When a message comes up, click on Finish.

Congratulations 🎉😎

You have successfully installed Quarto

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