Variable expansion in computations

[mavam]

Is it possible to expand a variable from _variables.yml inside a computation?

I have something like this:

```{bash}
cmd --param={{<var magic>}}
```

The expansion only works outside the cell. Is there away to pass the parameter inside, e.g., as argument to {bash}?

[mcanouil]

For clarity, it's a shortcode and proper syntax is {{< KEY ARG >}}.

This being said, the only variables you can use are the one under the params YAML key, see https://quarto.org/docs/computations/parameters.html.

There are several GitHub Discussions about this if you want to know more about it and workarounds.
Quarto team has plan to allow to use variables and/or environment variables in code cells, but this is something for the future, so you'll have to be patient.

[mavam]

Thanks, I guess I'll resort to params.