Wrap-Up

Session 2: AEA Replication in Quarto

Cynthia Huang

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Replication Template

Reproducibility in Social Sciences

• Replication involves both computational requirements and documentation
• Quarto can help with documentation even if you don’t use R/Python
• Consider preparing your replication package inside a Quarto website project using 🔗 github.com/cynthiahqy/quarto-replication-template

Websites

Quarto Websites

• Websites are type of Quarto project
• Projects all contain a _quarto.yml config file
• You can build a website around existing code, data and papers!

Learn more

quarto.org/docs/websites

Day 2 Pre-Work

• If you’re not familar with using git from inside RStudio or the command line, please install the latest version of GitHub Desktop: https://desktop.github.com

Optional:

• Keep adding content to replication-pkg/
• Check out Quarto websites and see if there are any features you’d particularly like to learn:
  • See Awesome Quarto or my website cynthiahqy.com

Questions

Any questions / anything you’d like to review or learn before we wrap up the workshop?

Suggestions / requests for things to cover in Thursday’s session?