How can I source my r source code to the root of the project directory?

[jonso99]

Hello all

I have a quarto R book with a lot of qmd files and would love to keep them in folder named after the book parts, like

PartA/intro.qmd

Here is what I cannot figure out. Suppose I keep data or a common R file in a folder called data, then I cannot source it with the same path depending on if I render book in terminal or edit qmd it in VScode and run code chunks there. One needs

source("common/functions.r")

and the other

source("../common/functions.r")

So as far as I can see, the only way to make this work is to keep all qmd files in the root folder. Which is very messy.

One might think that the R here library would solve this, but here seems incompatible with quarto.

I must be missing something incredibly stupid.

thanks

jack

[eitsupi]

We can use the execute-dir: project setting.
https://quarto.org/docs/projects/code-execution.html#working-dir

See also:
https://quarto.org/docs/tools/vscode.html#execution-directory

[jonso99]

Thanks a lot @eitsupi

I knew I was missing something obvious!

best, jack