Example of a Quarto Report with dynamically created tables
Presentation given on this Aug 11 2022: https://youtu.be/Uay6X65Ukvk. The version given in that talk is Release v2.0.
Short version (8 minutes) of collaboration with a Quarto report: https://youtu.be/WvKw1OQIpMk
Or clone to your computer. To get the necessary packages, you can do
install.packages(renv) # if needed
renv::restore()
Or don't do that and click "Render" from the Build TAB. Then install the packages as it complains. You will also need to install tinytex. How? install.packages(tinytex) and then install_tinytex().
- Dynamic tables and figures where the table number, table caption, number of tables is all dynamically created based on the data set
- Table cross-refs that just work across formats
- Figures that look good across formats and it "just works"---with the caveat that I am using {flextable} for Word/html and {kableExtra} for PDF.
- A custom title page for PDF.
- Link to source code, post issue, edit source code right on the HTML for each page.
- Link to download the PDF and Word. This is auto-generated. None of this is manual.
- HTML that looks good across different sized displays (big screen and phone screen)
- {gt} is great. Why not use that for tables? It was not playing nice with Quarto+PDF and broke all table numbering in subsequent tables (flextable or kabelExtra or markdown). I reported the bug and I think the {gt} developers have fixed for the next update.
Kind of. I love {bookdown} and I have written multiple on-line books with it but
- there were a lot of hacks and tricks needed for cross-refs and it would tend to break when you needed multiple formats (PDF, HTML and Word).
- Lack of solid cross-ref working across formats is a deal-breaker for government reports.
- The ability to use "@" to find your cross-refs that you can do with Visual mode in RStudio... I can't live without that now.
- Quarto still has some hacks, but many many fewer. A lot of stuff seems to just work.