Having access to the quarto command in command line

[ark561]

Hello,

I am a bit inexperienced working with GitHub, but am trying to learn more.

I've got a bit of confusion on how to actually publish my documents using GitHub Pages. I've been following the guide at https://quarto.org/docs/publishing/github-pages.html, but when I get to the "Render to docs" section, I get an error when I type

quarto render

I'm using a terminal on Mac, and get the following error:
zsh: command not found: quarto

How to I gain access to the function for quarto?

I know this is a very simple question, but how do I do this? Thank you in advance for your patience and help!

[mcanouil]

I am assuming you are using RStudio as your IDE, am I correct?
(RStudio embed a version of Quarto)

If that is the case, I don't think RStudio is adding its internal Pandoc or Quarto to the PATH which is required if you want to use it in the command line.
I saw something about this, but don't recall where.
This is possibly something to report to https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio.

Meanwhile, what you can do is installing Quarto yourself by downloading the proper version for your OS at https://quarto.org/docs/download/.

[cderv]

Just to add to that answer:

When using RStudio IDE bundled version, and when terminal is needed, best things is to use the RStudio IDE built-in terminal where quarto command should be available. At least with a recent verison of the RStudio IDE.

[mcanouil]

Oh, so it has been fixed (at least internally).

[ark561]

Oh wow I didn't even think about that - I feel like such a tool!

Thank you so much for your help!