Introduction to Quarto for Research Projects
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This tutorial was developed as part of the STARS project.

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Examples

Research projects

Projects that document and share a single, well-defined piece of research, usually with its own paper, report, or case study, plus code and/or interactive outputs.

Computational Reproducibility Assessments: Summary
University of Exeter
Summary of eight computational reproducibility assessments from STARS Work Package 1, presented as a detailed digital appendix to the paper with full methods, results, tables, and figures.
An integrated approach to identifying sex-specific genes, transcription factors, and pathways relevant to Alzheimer's disease
Accompanies their paper. Site includes results of systematic review, and genomics analysis results. (Unfortunately cannot find code)
Exeter Oncology Model: Renal Cell Carcinoma edition (EOM-RCC)
University of Exeter
Documentation for EOM-RCC,a platform cost-effectiveness model encompassing each decision node in the disease area for advanced renal cell carcinoma.
The Early Psychosis: Investigating Cognition (EPIC) Project
Website for project including news/updates, pages for advisory group and participants, contact information and publications. (Unfortunately cannot find code)
Quantification of resilience in farm animals
Supporting website for their paper containing supplemental code examples.
Violence Risk Assessment in Forensic Mental Health Services
Shares results of systematic review, accompanying their paper.
Analysis for Large-scale clustering of longitudinal faecal calprotectin and C-reactive protein profiles in inflammatory bowel disease
Presents the analyses carreid out in their paper.
nordatlantisk-ft
Website for an open voting-records dataset, with a data overview, detailed codebook of all variables, and information about the repository.
Simulating Attention and Performance tasks with an LLM
R project recording various simulation experiments.
NAture-positive SCenarios for ENvironmental Transitions: Peru
Project website with maps, photo galleries, interactive figures, updates.
research-compendium-website
Template site with pages about, data, codes and manuscript.
PLB DSS Analysis
Example using the template site, reporting on potate late blight forecasting model.
Is Latitude Associated with Chronotype?
Masters Thesis as quarto website.

Manuscripts

Papers wrote fully using Quarto.

Towards an open-source model for data and metadata standards
Online report with background/methods/results and links to extra pages providing more details.
Analysis of human visual experience data
Manuscript and supplementary materials
Supplementary Materials for: The promise of community-driven preprints in ecology and evolution
Clinical Performance of Tumor-Informed versus Tumor-Agnostic ctDNA Assays for Colorectal Cancer Recurrence
Webpage-based report for systematic review and meta-analysis paper.
Dissociating mechanisms of heart-voice coupling
Extended results and supplementary information for their paper.

Homepage for research programme or team

Overarching homepages that present an entire project, programme, lab, or community, bringing together people, research, resources, news, and key links in one place.

STARS
University of Exeter
Summary site for the STARS research project, with dedicated pages describing each component of the project and separate pages for every associated publication, including links to code and embedded papers.
HSMA
University of Exeter
Programme homepage describing the HSMA training scheme, with resources, guidance, news, and pages on each and every HSMA student project.
Affective Communication & Computing Lab
Lab website with blog posts containing latest news, and with pages listing the team, research themes, publications, resources and opportunities.
Computational Cognition Lab
Research group site listing publications, people, opportunities. Also has latest news and links to their learning resources, including open textbooks and teaching materials built with tools like Bookdown and Quarto.
Digital Humanities Bern
Centre homepage with news and event listings, and individual pages on their research areas and services.
Hertie Coding Club
Club site introducing the group's mission, events, and workshops, with interactive resources, coding materials, and a polished, animated homepage experience.
Masiello Research Group
Group homepage with detailed researcher profiles, plus research area overviews, publications, software links, and news.
NHS-R Community
Community site sharing reports, blog posts, events, resources, and information about fellows and contributors, supporting users of R across the NHS.
Deep Energy and Climate Policy Lab
Group homagepage with blog posts, project summaries, publications, team, events and more.
Atlas of Living Australia Labs
Features analysis articles and data visualisations.
Real World Data Science
Project from the Royal Statistical Society - site contains mostly blog posts.
epiforecasts
Research group at the Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases of the Longon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
seedcase
Project website with roadmap, info on team, and links out to other sites focused on community and design.
openscapes
Clearly designed project website with great graphics and design.

Training / Modules / Courses / Etc.

Self-paced learning resources, workshop materials, and full course sites that use Quarto to deliver lectures, exercises, tutorials, and technical guidance, often alongside code and datasets.

Quarto tutorial
University of Exeter
Of course, we created this website using Quarto!
DES RAP Book
University of Exeter
Self-paced training resource on creating discrete-event simulation models in Python and R as part of a reproducible analytical pipeline.
Testing in Research Workflow
University of Exeter
Tutorial on testing in Python and R, accompanies HDR UK Futures training videos.
HSMA - the little book of DES
University of Exeter
Self-paced training resource on creating discrete-event simulation models in Python using SimPy.
STA 210: Regression Analysis
TASO Interactive Technical Guides
Reproducibility at Urban
Energy and Climate Policy
Online course with schedule, lectures as quarto presentations, and more.

Researcher profiles

Personal websites and blogs for researchers.

Andrew Heiss
Drew Dimmery
Beatriz Milz
Mike Mahoney
Chris von Csefalvay
Salman Naqvi
Silvia Canelón
John Paul Helveston
Gang He
Quarto Academic Template
Template created by Dr Gang He
Albury C

Conferences and events

Event and seminar websites that share programmes, schedules, speakers, and materials for conferences, workshops, and talk series, often with links to slides, recordings, and related resources.

Climate Guest Speakers
Schedule and description of upcoming talks from guest speakers.
R/Medicine 2026
Conference website with registration, submission, programme, details about hackathon, etc.
2021 Cloud Hackathon
Information about hackathon, schedule, lots of tutorial pages.

Package documentation

Use Quarto (with tools like quartodoc) to build clean, navigable documentation sites for your Python or R packages, including API reference, usage guides, and examples.

lintquarto
University of Exeter
Python package which runs linters and type checkers on code embedded in Quarto .qmd files.
vidigi
University of Exeter
Python package for creating animated visualisations of queues and pathways from simulation or real-world data.
skimpy
Python package providing summary statistics from dataframes.

Other cool examples

Further examples of interesting uses of quarto in research.

Healthcare Services Analytics & Decision Science Atlas.
University of Exeter
Directory of open-source tools, packages, and projects for analytics and decision science in healthcare.

Non-Quarto examples

Inspiring research websites, reports, and project pages (built without Quarto) that model good practice in openness, documentation, and communication of analytic work.

Model and code sharing practices in healthcare discrete-event simulation: a systematic scoping review
University of Exeter
Companion to publication which provides more detailed introduction, methods, results, discussion.
Research Compendium: Replicating Simulations in Python using Generative AI
University of Exeter
Companion to publication with full record of study - in this case, all prompts, code, tests, results.
Introduction to SAMueL-1 (Stroke Audit Machine Learning)
University of Exeter
Full results from project, supplementary to reports and papers.
Introduction to SAMueL-2 (Stroke Audit Machine Learning)
University of Exeter
Full project results.
AmbModelOpen
Describes research project modelling ambulances - including background, method, and results - serving as foundation for conference paper.
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