Quarto Codespaces

GitHub Codespaces and Development Containers with Quarto, R, Python, and Julia, ready to render. The image carries the Quarto CLI, R with renv, Python with uv and Jupyter, Julia with IJulia, TinyTeX for PDF output, and headless Chrome or Chromium for screenshots and Decktape.

Documentation: https://m.canouil.dev/quarto-codespaces

Open a Codespace

Purpose-built image (ghcr.io/mcanouil/quarto-codespaces:latest), fastest to start:

Codespaces universal base image, lighter on GitHub storage quota:

Use the image

docker pull ghcr.io/mcanouil/quarto-codespaces:latest

Tag	Quarto	Architectures
latest	stable release	amd64, arm64
release, release-noble	stable release	amd64, arm64
prerelease, prerelease-noble	prerelease	amd64, arm64
one per Quarto minor version, with a -noble variant	that minor version	amd64
any tag with a -<YYYYMMDDHHMM> suffix	as above, pinned to one build	as above

Images are rebuilt every Sunday and scanned with Trivy. Full tag list: ghcr.io/mcanouil/quarto-codespaces.

Use as a Dev Container

{
  "name": "My Quarto project",
  "image": "ghcr.io/mcanouil/quarto-codespaces:latest",
  "remoteUser": "vscode",
  "features": {
    "ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer-features/quarto-cli:1": {
      "version": "release"
    }
  }
}

Configurations for the Quarto prerelease and for every supported Quarto minor version are in .devcontainer/, and listed on the configurations page. Click Use this template to start your own repository from this one.

Documentation

• Getting started: Codespaces, local Dev Containers, and template use.
• Configurations: every devcontainer.json in the repository.
• Container images: tags, architectures, build schedule, scanning.
• Dev Container features: the features built here.
• init-env.sh: project-local R, Python, and Julia environments.
• Quarto check output: what the latest builds report.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Open an issue or a pull request. See contributing for the repository layout and what continuous integration checks.

Licence

MIT. See LICENSE.