Community Examples

Explore Real-world Use Cases and Projects Using the quarto-webr Extension

Welcome to the Community Examples page for the quarto-webr extension. Here, we showcase diverse and innovative ways that members of our community are using the extension. You’ll find real-world examples of projects, applications, educational materials, and more created by fellow users.

Have a project using quarto-webr? Contribute by submitting a pull request or creating an issue. Your contributions can inspire and foster collaboration within our community, expanding the possibilities of quarto-webr.

Videos

• quarto-webr: Your first webR-powered Quarto Document (RStudio)
• Eli E. Holmes’ coverage of webR + Quarto on her EEHolmes-DataScience YouTube channel
  • Demo of webR quarto extension along with Codespaces on Mar 14, 2023 and her test repository
  • WebR + Quarto Demo: Running R right in the browser! on Mar 10, 2023 (Note: This uses an earlier Proof of Concept document. Not the quarto extension!)

Teaching Materials / Workshops

English

• Andrew Heiss’ conversion of R Primers. Spring 2024.
  • Source repository
• Andrew Heiss’’s course Data Visualization with R at Georgia State University. Summer 2024.
  • Source repository
• E.D. Gennatas’s tech demo with progressive reveal tutorials. Spring 2024.
• Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo’s MF9130E - Introductory Course in Statistics. Spring 2024.
  • Sample Lab and source repo announced on Linkedin
• Jerid Francom’s course LIN 380/680: Quantitative Text Analysis for Linguistics. Spring 2024.
  • Sample lecture and source repo
• Kevin Middleton’s guided practice Quantitative Exercises in Genetics. Spring 2024.
  • Course repo
• Jason Hilton’s part of the course RESM3002: Advanced Social Data Science. Spring 2024.
  • Lecture: Introduction to R and course repo.
• Martine Jansen’s workshop talk on Creating slides with Quarto by Slides (PDF). Feb 24th, 2024. VVSOR.
  • Source
• Bruno Rodrigues’ use of the extension in his notes for Building Reproducible Analytical Pipelines.
  • Source repository
• David Brocker’s conversion of his PY 3600: Statistical Methods course materials. Oct 23rd, 2023.
  • Source repository
• Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel’s Teaching Data Science Masterclass: Organizing, publishing, and sharing of course materials. Sept 18, 2023 @ posit::conf(2023)
  • Ex 1.1: UN Votes, Page Source
  • Full workshop materials at source repository and deployed website example’s source repository
• LMU Open Science Center (OSC)’s Quarto Workshop. Summer 2023.
  • Demo page and source
• Ethan White’s experimental interactive version of Data Carpentry for Biologists. Mar 13th, 2023.

Spanish

• Javier Arántegui’s course Calidad 2023-24 contained short R Tutorials with examples using quarto-webr
  • Lecture: Introduction to R (Spanish), Lecture: Acceptance Sampling, and mastodon tweet.

Turkish

• Alper Yilmaz’s lecture notes for MBG1032 Biyoistatistik. Spring 2024.
  • Source

Talks

• Nicola Rennie’s talk on Teaching statistics interactively with webR. Nov 22th, 2023 @ RSS/RoSE UK Statistics Education Meeting 2023
  • Slides and Source code
• Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D.’s talk on Quarto: A Not So Gentle Introduction uses the quarto-webr extension as an example extension for Quarto. Oct 19th, 2023.
  • Source
• George Stagg’s talk on Shiny Without a Server: webR & Shinylive brief mention of quarto-webr as a quick onboarding option. Oct 18, 2023 @ Jumping Rivers Shiny in Production 2023 Conference
  • Video (38:07)
• George Stagg’s talk on the Magic with WebAssembly and webR mentioning quarto-webr as an easy onboarding option. Sep 20, 2023 @ posit::conf(2023)
  • Video (19:22)
• James Balamuta’s talk on Dynamic Interactions:Empowering Educators and Researchers with Interactive Quarto Documents Using webR. Sep 19, 2023 @ posit::conf(2023)
  • Video (20:35)
• George Stagg’s talk on the Introduction to webR mentioning quarto-webr as an easy onboarding option. Sep 18, 2023 @ posit::conf(2023)
• Nicola Rennie’s talk on Teaching statistics interactively with webR. Sept 7th, 2023 @ RSS International Conference 2023
  • Slides and Source code
• bob Rudis’ talk on 🕸️ Into the WebR-Verse incorporating a demo of the quarto-webr extension. Jul 13th, 2023 @ New York R Conference 2023
  • Video (21:01) and Source code
  • boB used a cool trick to embed the demo in his revealjs slides.
• Maria Tackett’s talk on Using Quarto for Making and Organizing Teaching Materials during the Teaching (with) Quarto Session. Aug 7, 2023 @ JSM 2023
  • Slides and Source code
  • WebR Demo on Quarto Pub

Textbooks

English

• Daniel Kaplan’s book Lessons in Statistical Thinking
  • Book source. Spring 2024.
• Dylan Spicker’s course note book STAT 1793: Course Notes. Spring 2024.
  • Book source
• Dmitry Kondrashov’s notes on Quantifying Life. Spring 2024.
  • Book source
• Daniel E. Weeks incorporated webR exercises into various parts of the HuGen2071. Fall 2023.
  • Book source
• Daren Eiri uses interctive code cells in Condition Handling with Logging chapter.
  • Book Source and Chapter Source

Japanese

• Socihi Matsuura incorporated quarto-webr as part of R for Accounting Research’s practice problems. Spring 2024.
  • Book source

Korean

• 이광춘 (Kwangchun Lee)’s book ChatGPT Data Science
  • Book source

Notebooks

• George Stagg’s notebook example showing tidymodels workflow using webR
  • tidymodels starter article without webR Preprocess your data with recipes

Social media posts

English

• Alberto Caimo’s post on Twitter (also known as X) showing an example exploring Beta-binomial distributions.
• John Hill‘s’ post on BlueSky discussing the potential for using quarto-webr in UK social science quant methods courses.
• Jeffrey Perkel post on Mastodon with a quick ggplot2 demo. Dec 14th, 2023
• Nien Xiang Tou post on LinkedIn and Mastodon
• Linh Nguyen’s post on LinkedIn and Twitter describing how she used knowledge at posit::conf(2023) to convert existing R notes to use the quarto-webr extension. Sept 22, 2023
• Joe Chelladurai mentioning a similiar integration on mastodon for his newly developed The School of Data. Jul 11th, 2023
• Nicola Rennie’s tweet showing live coding with webR. May 5th, 2023
• bob Rudis’ kind praise of the extension. Apr 2nd, 2023

Japanese

• st4tditt0 post on Twitter (also known as X) with a quick favorite package deni. Apr 20, 2024.

Spanish

• Alejandro Romero’s post on Twitter (also known as X) showing Implementación de los Autómatas Celulares de @stephen_wolfram en R. Jan 23, 2024.

French

• Lino Galiana in Infolettre n°17 for the Service Statistique Publique (SSP) regarding quarto-webr for Quarto. Discussed on LinkedIn.
  • Source

Blog posts

English

• Pawel Rucki’s post on the Pharmaverse blog TLG Catalog 🤝 WebR.
  • Example page: ADAT01 and Source repository.
• Rodolfo Lourenzutti’s tutorial post on A/B Testing. Apr 3rd, 2024.
  • Source
• Claudiu Papasteri’s post on Hugo blogdown posts with in-browser interactive code chunks using webR and Quarto?. Feb 5th, 2024.
  • Source
• Cara Thompson’s post on A quick experiment with WebR: how much can I do in under an hour?. Feb 2nd, 2024.
• Matt Dray’s post on Pseudo-apps in the browser with WebR and Quarto?. Jan 20th, 2024.
  • Source
• James Goldie’s post on Your new R package? Write a WebR blog post for it. Jan 19th, 2024.
  • Source
• Isabella Velásquez’s post on Six not-so-basic base R functions. Jan 16th, 2024.
  • Source
• Wolfgang Huber’s post on Horseshoes in multi-dimensional scaling. Jan 6th, 2024.
  • Source
• Alex Hayes’s post on the accumulation of small risks. Dec 23rd, 2023.
  • Source
• Thomas Sandmann’s post on Embedding R into Quarto documents with quarto-webr. Nov 18th, 2023.
  • Example document: Intersecting Differential expression results.
  • Source
• Pedro Aphalo’s website called Using R for Photobiology. Nov 11th, 2023.
  • Demo: Linear Models Introduction and website source
• Chi Zhang’s post Use WebR in your existing quarto website. Oct 1st, 2023.
• Javier Orraca-Deatcu’s post titled webR via Quarto Extensions. Aug 23rd, 2023.
• George Stagg’s mention of the extension in his webR 0.2.0 announcement. Aug 8th, 2023.
• Ethan White’s use to create a portal for Tidy Tuesday. May 2nd, 2023
• Matt Dray’s post on Playgrounds with WebR and Quarto. Mar 16th, 2023
  • A Parsing Playground for R Code on Netlify and the repository powering it.
  • Source
• Ethan White’s post on Playgrounds with WebR and Quarto. Mar 13th, 2023.

Chinese

• Shixiang Wang’s post on Combining quarto publishing system and webr technology.
  • Source

Press

• Briefly mentioned in the Nature Technology Feature No installation required: how WebAssembly is changing scientific computing by Jeffrey M. Perkel (Technology editor, Springer Nature).
• R Weekly podcast included a reference to the Proof of Concept document/extension during episode 115, which was dedicated to the webR 0.1.0 announcement.
  • R weekly 115 (2023-W11)

Important

This Quarto extension is open source software and is not affiliated with Posit, Quarto, or webR. The extension is at best a community effort to simplify the integration of webR inside of Quarto generated documents.