How to create Word docs from R or Python with Quarto

There are several ways to create a Word document from programming languages, including R Markdown and the officer package with R and the python-docx library in Python. But one of the newest and more intriguing is Quarto, a free, open source technical publishing system from RStudio (now Posit) that’s native to Python and Julia as well as R.

One of the big advantages of Quarto is that, unlike a Word-specific package, the same Quarto file with minor tweaks can be …

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