With Quarto Coming, is R Markdown Going Away? No.

So you have heard of Quarto, a new tool based on Pandoc for technical publishing. When you first see a .qmd document (Quarto), it looks quite similar to an .Rmd document (R Markdown), which can easily confuse R Markdown users. Questions can arise naturally: Why inventing a new system? Why cannot you just add the new features to the existing R Markdown ecosystem? Is R Markdown going to be retired? I will share some thoughts in this post. For those who prefer reading a shorter official FAQ, please visit <a href=“https://quarto.org/docs/faq …