Why can't I render figures that are in a folder different from images?

[sbacelar]

Description

I am using Windows 11 and Quarto version 1.4.549.
I have been trying to render some figures, but I had problems when the figures were not in the folder images, which is created (I think) when using Quarto in Visual mode. Should I copy all image files to the images folder to be able to render them?
In the code below, there is no problem with elephant figures, which are in the folder code/elephants; also there is no problem with my QQ1.png to QQ4.png files, which are in the folder code/images; but the other same files QQ1.png to QQ4.png that are in a longer path, do not render.

---
title: "Teste Figs"
format: html
editor: source
execute:
  echo: false
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
library(tidyverse)
```

# Elephants

::: {layout-nrow="2"}
![Surus](elephants/surus.png)

![Hanno](elephants/hanno.png)

![Abdul Abbas](elephants/abdul-abbas.png)

![Lin Wang](elephants/lin-wang.png)
:::

# Q-Q Plots for each session in images

Some text.

::: {layout-nrow="2"}
![S1](images/QQ1.png)

![S2](images/QQ2.png)

![S3](images/QQ3.png)

![S4](images/QQ4.png)
:::

# Q-Q Plots for each session

Some text.

::: {layout-nrow="2"}
![S1](../data/out/figs/figs_T/QQ1.png)

![S2](../data/out/figs/figs_T/QQ2.png)

![S3](../data/out/figs/figs_T/QQ3.png)

![S4](../data/out/figs/figs_T/QQ4.png)
:::

[mcanouil]

Could you properly format your code and make fully reproducible?
We can't help you with your current message.

You can share a Quarto document using the following syntax, i.e., using more backticks than you have in your document (usually four ````).

````qmd
---
title: "Reproducible Quarto Document"
format: html
engine: knitr
---

This is a reproducible Quarto document using `format: html`.
It is written in Markdown and contains embedded R code.
When you run the code, it will produce a plot.

```{r}
plot(cars)
```

![A placeholder image](https://placehold.co/600x400.png)

The end.
````

[cscheid]

This is by design. Quarto is designed in part to encourage and facilitate reproducibility, and that includes enforcing care about the file-system dependencies in your document. If you want resource dependencies that move out of the current directory, you will need to create a Quarto project so that all required files are in the project directory.

[sbacelar]

I put an empty _quarto.yml at the root and the problem is solved. But when I render into pdf the pdf does not show immediately in the browser as it happened before. I have to open the pdf file.

[mcanouil]

How do you render/preview the Quarto documents? Are you using an IDE? Which one?
Please provide the steps to reproduce the behaviour your are describing.

[sbacelar]

I am using RStudio 2023.12.0 to render Quarto documents. I simply click on the Render button and choose the output type: HTML, PDF or Word. The YAML of my qmd file is now:

---
title: "Teste Figs"
editor: source
toc: true
highlight-style: pygments
format:
  html: 
    code-fold: true
    html-math-method: katex
  pdf:
    geometry: 
      - top=30mm
      - left=30mm
    include-before:
      - \newpage{}
    link-citations: true
  docx: default
execute:
  echo: false
---

[mcanouil]

This would be an issue with RStudio I believe.
I don't have RStudio so I can't reproduce, thus can't be sure.

[sbacelar]

OK. I will try later in CLI and VsCode.