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Quarto

Quarto

Quarto

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Extension for the Quarto scientific and technical publishing system.
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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quarto-vscode Supported by Posit

A Visual Studio Code extension for the Quarto scientific and technical publishing system.

This extension provides language support for Quarto .qmd files for both VS Code and Positron.

Use the functionality provided in this extension to:

  • Author Quarto documents with enhanced editing features such as syntax highlighting, code completion, diagnostics, specialized code snippets, and document navigation
  • Use the Visual Editor for WYSIWYM editing of Quarto documents
  • Execute code cells interactively
  • Render and preview Quarto documents to multiple formats

Positron

Positron comes ready to work with Quarto out-of-the-box; it includes both the Quarto command line interface, this extension, and support for enhanced features for Python and R as embedded languages.

Read more about using Quarto with Positron, including how to author .ipynb notebooks.

VS Code

To use Quarto in VS Code, install both this extension and the Quarto command line interface. To use enhanced features for embedded languages such as completion and code execution, additionally install the VS Code extension for your language(s) of choice:

  • Python and Jupyter (for code execution)
  • R
  • Julia

Read more about using Quarto with VS Code, including how to author .ipynb notebooks.

Getting Help

If you have questions or need help with Quarto, you can check out the Quarto discussion forum. If you have a bug report or feature request for this extension, you can use its GitHub repository.

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