That all changed when I found out how wonderful Visual Studio Code is. Compared to the robust data-science focused development of RStudio, Python’s options always left me with enough pain points with my workflow that I’d rather develop in R over Python when given the option. However, because Python was built as a general programming language first, I always found it frustrating to navigate the various clunky integrated development environments (also known as IDEs) that existed and were compatible with the language. It has flexibility for being used for both general programming purposes and data science (as opposed to R, which was built for statistical computing first and foremost). Options are also provided for creating a git repository and initializing an renv environment for the project.Python is seen by far across the industry as the most important programming language to know for doing data science. You can use this UI to create both vanilla projects as well as websites and books. If you want to create a new project for a Quarto document or set of documents, use the File : New Project… command, specify New Directory, then choose Quarto Project: Side-by-side preview works for both HTML and PDF output. The preview will update whenever you re-render the document.

The preview will appear alongside the editor: If you prefer to automatically render whenever you save you can check the Render on Save option on the editor toolbar. Use the Render button to preview documents as you edit them: Use the File : New File : Quarto Document… command to create new Quarto documents:

If you are using Quarto within RStudio it is strongly recommended that you use the latest release of RStudio (v2023.03).

RStudio v2022.07 and later includes support for editing and preview of Quarto documents (the documentation below assumes you are using this build or a later version).

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