2  The _quarto.yml file

Author

Affiliation

Dr. Devan Becker

Wilfrid Laurier University

Let’s go through the file line-by-line.

date-fromat: iso
date: "last-modified"
author: "Dr. Devan Becker"
institute: "Wilfrid Laurier University"

• date-format to institute are self-explanatory.
  • See date formats for more advanced things

execute:
  warning: false
  cache: true
  freeze: auto

• The execute options will apply to everything.

profile:
  default: slides
  group:
  - [slides, book]

This is where a lot of the magic happens! The profiles allow for easy switching between output formats, each of which has their own option.

• The default profile being “slides” means that Ctrl+Shift+K will preview to slides!
  • You can change this depending on what you’re developing.