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+::: callout-tip
+In this lesson, we will be leveraging RMarkdown instead of Quarto so that we can use a very cool R package called `rticles`. Quarto has the same functionality as RMarkdown with `rticles` - making journal formatted articles from a code notebook - but it is done from the command line without additional R packages. See [the Quarto documentation](https://quarto.org/docs/journals/) for details
+:::
 
 ### Reproducible Research: Recap