working directory for interactive quarto document in R

[AmelZulji]

Dear community,

I am following this post here rstudio/rstudio#11361 to honor working directory for interactive qmd document. However, seems like execute-dir is completely unresponsive. When document is rendered getwd() shows the directory in which the files is. However, interactively getwd() shows the project root directory (it does not change with changing execute-dir to file or project).

Is it possible that the execute-dir is unresponsive because I am working with qmd document within .rproject and not quarto project? If yes, is there a workaround?

Regards,
Amel

[EinMaulwurf]

You can try settting Settings -> R Markdown -> Evaluate Chunks in Directory: Project in RStudio. For me, this helps with quarto markdown (qmd) files as well.

[cderv]

working directory for interactive qmd document.

Can you give an example of your current setup so that we know for sure what you are trying ?

Is it possible that the execute-dir is unresponsive because I am working with qmd document within .rproject and not quarto project? If yes, is there a workaround?

For execute-dir configuration, if you are refering to this one: https://quarto.org/docs/projects/code-execution.html#working-dir, then this is a Quarto project option. So if you are not using quarto project with a _quarto.yml, I don't know where you set your configuration but this won't work.

Are you in this situation: rstudio/rstudio#11361 (comment) ?

execute-dir is not an option for a document, this is really for project.

If you are looking for the document level option, then this is at knitr level with Package option (https://yihui.org/knitr/options/#package-options) using root.dir. They can be set through YAML too https://quarto.org/docs/computations/r.html#knitr-options

However, beware playing with changing the execution dir. This could lead to undesired side effect in a project or other process. Usually, executing code content inside the path where the document is located is enough, and when needed to access resources elsewhere, playing with path construction is better.

Anyhow, this should help