Chunk options value defined as code

[statquant]

Hello,
In R using the knitr engine, it is possible to specify chunk options (echo, eval, ...) to be evaluated as code. My humble opinion is that this is a killer feature that is not available anywhere else.
I was wondering if there was any project to port this feature to be available using a jupyter engine ?

PS: please kindly let me know if this is not the place to be asking non-technical question of the sort

[cscheid]

I hear you: this is a popular request.

Unfortunately, we're unlikely to ever add general support for this because Quarto is, by design, agnostic to the language being executed, and these !expr tricks in knitr, powerful as they may be, make it impossible for Quarto to provide YAML intelligence (validation, completion, etc) in a way that works across engines and programming languages.

[statquant]

Thanks @cscheid for this prompt response!
We'll still have knitr 😩