Description

This workshop is intended for Penn undergraduate students, graduate students, predocs, postdocs, faculty, and staff who work in RStudio and share or present their work in formatted documents. The session is suited to learners interested in using Quarto as a digital tool for assignments, research, teaching, service, publication, or the job market. This workshop offers techniques for formatting text, citations, code, and figures in Quarto and R Markdown so learners can produce submission-ready academic papers, slide presentations, websites, and more.

After this workshop, learners should be able to

• Format text and citations
• Prepare code, visualizations, and tables for display
• Export a formatted, human-readable document

Expectations

• Code-along with instructor: 75 min.
• Solo/Group practice: 20 min.
• Lecture: 10 min.

Requirements

1. Prerequisite: This workshop expects learners are comfortable navigating RStudio, reading and executing R code, and using features of academic writing (e.g.: citations; figures) outside of RStudio.
2. Install R and RStudio (version 2026.04.0 or later) OR plan to use the Lippincott Library’s on-site computers
3. Install packages in R: install.packages(c("ggplot2", "kableExtra", "knitr", "rmarkdown", "stargazer"), dep = TRUE)
4. Optional: Check for and/or install a LaTeX distribution (e.g.: TinyTeX). LaTeX lets Quarto create PDF files. You can participate fully without LaTeX.