The Epidemiologist Julia Handbook

Starting off with a quarto book proj for a julia handbook.

How it works

• Using VScode because you can run Julia in terminal (RStudio doesn't currently support)
• Quarto projects is the new replacement for R's {bookdown}, and is much more flexible and clean

Getting setup

• install the following:
  • Julia
    • necessary additions for working with quarto
    • note just like R, Julia is the backend hideous to work with, and Rstudio or VScode are the front end - unfortunately Rstudio doesn't currently allow you to run Julia in the console, but this might come ? which would simplify things
  • Visual Studio Code note CODE in blue not purple
    • within VSCODE you add extensions for:
      • julia
      • quarto
  • Once installed you can clone the repo directly from VScode

Packages

• Julia has built in package management (called {pkg}) for a project (the equivalent of R's {renv})
• read the julia documentation on directories
• see the pkg documentation for how this works