NEWS

erstools 1.2.0

ers_template() now creates a Quarto (.qmd) file by default. Previously it always created an R Markdown (.Rmd) file, so ers_template("my_analysis") now produces my_analysis.qmd rather than my_analysis.Rmd. This is deliberate: the team is standardizing on Quarto as part of the move from RStudio to Positron. Pass type = "rmd" to get the previous behavior.

ers_template() gains a type argument ("qmd", the default, or "rmd").
Added Quarto versions of both templates: the bare-bones ERS_Quarto_Template and the erstools_walkthrough. ers_template() is the only way to reach them, because Positron has no Quarto template picker and Quarto has no equivalent of rmarkdown::draft().
ers_template() now returns the created file path invisibly and messages which file it created, since Positron does not always open the new file automatically.

Every code chunk is gated with #| eval: false so a new analyst's first render succeeds before any placeholders have been filled in. Delete the line from a chunk once it holds real values.
Rendered output lands next to the source file rather than in a knitted files/ subdirectory. embed-resources: true keeps the HTML a single self-contained file.

The R Markdown templates are unchanged and remain available through ers_template(type = "rmd") and the RStudio "New R Markdown > From Template" picker.