_quarto.yml: No inline code for field content?

[r-cheologist]

I'm trying the following:

website:
  title: "Site"
  page-footer: "`r paste('©', lubridate::year(lubridate::now()), 'Me')`"

and only get verbatim content not the computed and assembled date string.

Can this be made work in Quarto?

[cderv]

Just to share that there is an issue about that you can follow: #1391

But overall, It is not possible to use knitr feature like that (inline code) outside of .qmd document using knitr. R is not run when the YAML is parsed.

[r-cheologist]

Thanks for pointing that out.Closing this then.