Quarto Overview

This lesson is called Quarto Overview, part of the Fundamentals of R course. This lesson is called Quarto Overview, part of the Fundamentals of R course.

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Your Turn

Copy the code below to create a new Quarto file, setting the author as your name, and the output format as Word.
Save your Quarto file as penguins-report.qmd.
Look through this Quarto file and make sure that you can identify the YAML, text sections, and code chunks.
Click the Render button and open the file that gets produced (penguins-report.docx).

---
title: My Penguins Report
author: David Keyes
format: docx
---

```{r}
library(tidyverse)

penguins <- read_csv("penguins.csv")
```

# Introduction

This report is about **three** species of penguins

1. Adele
1. Gentoo
1. Chinstrap

You'll learn *so* much about the penguins. I hope you're ready!

# Results

Here is a chart showing the average bill length for penguins, grouped by island and sex.
			
```{r}
penguin_bill_length_by_island_and_sex <-
  penguins |>
  drop_na(sex) |>
  group_by(island, sex) |>
  summarize(mean_bill_length = mean(bill_length_mm))

ggplot(
  data = penguin_bill_length_by_island_and_sex,
  mapping = aes(
    x = island,
    y = mean_bill_length,
    fill = sex
  )
) +
  geom_col(position = "dodge")
```

Learn More

The Quarto documentation website is a great place to start learning about Quarto. I also recommend the book, Quarto: The Practical Guide by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Charlotte Wickham.

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Eda Akpek • March 30, 2026

I clicked the "Preview" button to render the document, and I got this error:

Quitting from penguins_report.qmd:11-15 [unnamed-chunk-1] Execution halted WARN: Error encountered when rendering files PS C:\Users\zlw9\Desktop\my-r-project_penguins>

Gracielle Higino Coach • March 30, 2026

Hi Eda! This error message indicates that there is something wrong with your first code chunk ([unnamed-chunk-1]) on lines 11-15 (penguins_report.qmd:11-15). Maybe something related to the code to read in the data? Where is your Quarto document?

Eda Akpek • March 30, 2026

I have my document saved in a Quarto folder within the project

Gracielle Higino Coach • March 30, 2026

Have you changed the directory execution option on the YAML and/or the file path to your dataset? Try moving your Quarto document to your root directory to see if it fixes the problem.