How to Set Up Quarto with Docker, Part 2: Dynamic Content

Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc. It is a cross-platform tool to create dynamic content with Python, R, Julia, and Observable.

In the previous post about Quarto, we reviewed static hosting options with Docker containers, including single files and projects, such as books and websites.

How to Set Up Quarto with Docker, Part 1: Static Content

Learn how to work with Quarto inside a Docker container so that you can render and serve HTML documents and projects with ease.

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Most of these options do not really require the hosting to be container based, because the rendered HTML can be published to static hosting sites, such as GitHub pages, or Netlify.

Even interactive documents that rely on widgets (Jupyter Widgets or htmlwidgets) or Observable JS can be hosted as static files. But just like with R Markdown, you can use Shiny for interactivity. This is the focus of Part 2.

Containerizing Interactive R Markdown Documents

R Markdown is a reproducible authoring format supporting dozens of static and dynamic output formats. Let’s review why and how you should containerize Rmd files.

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Prerequisites

The code from this post can be found in the analythium/quarto-docker-examples GitHub repository:

GitHub – analythium/quarto-docker-examples: Quarto Examples with Docker

Quarto Examples with Docker. Contribute to analythium/quarto-docker-examples development by creating an account on GitHub.

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You will also need Docker Desktop installed.

If you want Quarto to be installed on your local machine, follow these two links to get started: Quarto docs, and RStudio install resources.