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Quarto looks for Rscript, doesn't keep temp files.
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Description
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Bug description
Hi.
This happened several months ago - I had the details then but got sidetracked by another issue with Quarto. Feel free to close this.
- The CLI option to keep temporary files was working minimally; I could see files being written to /tmp, but they'd get deleted, so I ended up modifying the code temporarily.
- The log showed that Quarto was looking for Rscript (whenever I rendered, as I recall). I've had zero R in my Markdown files.
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Actual behavior
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Expected behavior
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Quarto check output
I've uninstalled Quarto since then, and I can't find the logs.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the temporary-file and unexpected Rscript behavior with the current Quarto CLI; the issue provides no reproduction steps, environment, logs, files, or tests. Done means identifying a reproducible failure and confirming that the keep-temporary-files option preserves files and that Rscript is not sought when no R content is present.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, r
- Domain
- cli, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100