Is there a way to find the path to the pandoc executable that quarto uses?

[joelostblom]

Description

Me again. Is there a way to get quarto to report the path to the pandoc executable it is using? Something like pandoc_exec for Rmarkdown.

The background is that I need to detect if RMarkdown can run from terminal on multiple different OSes and since RMarkdown relies on RStudio setting a PATH variable on startup to locate pandoc, I'm currently telling RMarkdown where pandoc is manually via the find_pandoc function. This function needs a path to find pandoc in, and I'm currently using a few common paths that I have seen across OSes, but it would be convenient with a command. I tried the following which seemed to work for me on Ubuntu, but a few colleagues reported it not outputing a path for them on Mac:

echo "cat(dirname(paste(rmarkdown::pandoc_exec())))" > tmp-quarto-pandoc.R
quarto run tmp-quarto-pandoc.R

[cscheid]

I don't think we have a clean way to do it, but quarto check could provide that. Can you create an issue? Thanks.

[joelostblom]

Thank you, issue here #10561