These allow users to mix text with code in R, Python, Julia, shell scripts, SQL, Stan, JavaScript, C, C++, Fortran, and others,[6] similar to Jupyter Notebooks.

These reports can also be exported in various formats, including HTML, PDF, Microsoft Word, and LaTeX, with templates specific to the requirements of many scientific journals.

In contrast, Quarto documents define the chunk options below the curly brackets, prefixed using a pound character and vertical pipe (or "hash-pipe").

The RStudio integrated development environment (IDE) is available with the GNU Affero General Public License version 3.

Popular R packages that use this feature include: The RStudio IDE is developed by Posit, PBC, a public-benefit corporation[17] founded by J. J. Allaire,[18] creator of the programming language ColdFusion.

Posit has no formal connection to the R Foundation, a not-for-profit organization located in Vienna, Austria,[19] which is responsible for overseeing development of the R environment for statistical computing.