How to exclude a directory during build - quarto website

[dereckmezquita]

Description

I just started a brand new project using a quarto website layouts generated by RStudio.

I have my website that is at the root of my directory as it was created by the template. I also want to have some extra folders in my project for research and just old code. These are not necessarily pages that should be built and I want to exclude them.

(base) work@Derecks-MacBook-Air datascope % quarto preview /Users/work/Coding/datascope-playground/datascope/index.qmd --no-browser --no-watch-inputs
pandoc 
  to: html
  output-file: index.html
  standalone: true
  title-prefix: datascope
  section-divs: true
  html-math-method: mathjax
  wrap: none
  default-image-extension: png
  css:
    - styles.css
  toc: true
  
metadata
  document-css: false
  link-citations: true
  date-format: long
  lang: en
  theme: cosmo
  title: datascope
  
Output created: _site/index.html

Preparing to preview
[ 1/14] deprecated/deprecated-code.Rmd
- The project is out-of-sync -- use `renv::status()` for details.


processing file: deprecated-code.Rmd
1/8                  
2/8 [setup]          
3/8                  
4/8 [unnamed-chunk-1]
Error in `data$fasttrack_abscorrup_idea_by_country_time %>% mutate(country = countrycode(
    country, "iso3c", "country.name")) %>% ggplot(aes(time, abscorrup_idea,
    group = country))`:
! could not find function "%>%"



Quitting from lines 14-27 [unnamed-chunk-1] (deprecated-code.Rmd)
Execution halted
(base) work@Derecks-MacBook-Air datascope % 

I tried adding an excluded statement to my config file, but that did not work. What is the correct way to do this please?

I have searched online and the documentation. I found indications that an exclude statement in the config should be possible but nothing has worked for me. I would want something as simple as this:

project:
  type: website

website:
  title: "datascope"
  navbar:
    left:
      - href: index.qmd
        text: Home
      - about.qmd

format:
  html:
    theme: cosmo
    css: styles.css
    toc: true

exclude:
  - "deprecated/"

What is the correct way to do this please?

[mcanouil]

There is no such option (exclude) in Quarto, so pretty much expected it has no effect.

Making up options is very unlikely to work.

[mcanouil]

See render targets: https://quarto.org/docs/websites/index.html#render-targets

[dereckmezquita]

@mcanouil I found pseudocode or "making up options" the only way I could communicate my question. Thank you.

[mcanouil]

The question was quite clear.

I tried adding an excluded statement to my config file, but that did not work.

Is only adding confusion as you are stating you tried it and did not work implying an issue while the issue was that the command you tried never existed in the first place.
Which eventually lead to an answer using your code that of course did not work better.

Future readers might not know that exclude is not a real option and is made up.

[dereckmezquita]

@mcanouil I will edit and rephrase my question. I did not suspect my question or the phrasing thereof would cause such an offense.

However, I find that snarkiness from a lead dev to a quarto newcomer to be disappointing and indeed something which might cause more distress within such a nascent community than a badly phrased question.

[mcanouil]

However, I find that snarkiness from a lead dev to a quarto newcomer to be disappointing and indeed something which might cause more distress within such a nascent community than a badly phrased question.

I appreciate your feedback, and I apologise if my previous message came across as snarky. It was not my intention to cause any distress. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Note that I never wrote your question was badly phrased or anything like that.

My comment was mostly to ensure there are no confusion for you and future readers that might think exclude is a real thing such as the one who first replied to your message.
For instance, you actually tried the suggestion from this other user who actually based its answer on your made up code.
I don't believe the exchange I marked as off-topic was of any benefits to you or anyone else.

[aksharasoman]

In Quarto docs, I could see an "exclude" option that helps exclude items based on metadata specifics from the listing page, not necessarily by folder.

Please see this from official docs:
https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-listings.html#including-or-excluding-items

I am planning to utilize this as a workaround for excluding a particular file from the listing page.