Literate Programming with Quarto

This lesson is called Literate Programming with Quarto, part of the Reproducibility for the Rest of Us course. This lesson is called Literate Programming with Quarto, part of the Reproducibility for the Rest of Us course.

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Marina Gimenez • January 16, 2026

in general for data analysis, do you recommend start directly on quarto or to have like a separate script file that you can add to quarto once there is a proper report to make? Quarto is not the place document the analysis and show temporary results to co-workers?

David Keyes Founder • January 16, 2026

Personally, I tend to do all my data cleaning, data wrangling, etc. in an R script file and then move to Quarto just for reporting. But that's really just my personal preference, many people do it differently.

Jenine Harris • January 20, 2026

For me it depends on how much code I am writing. If it is just a couple of graphs or a small amount of analysis, I might put them all into one Quarto document and knit it to show drafts. If there is a lot of code, I have a .R file with the code in it and link to it from the quarto document in the YAML.