quarto_preview does not open right windows in RStudio IDE.

[cderv]

I'm on quarto 1.4.4 and somehow I am still getting this error: (edit: similar to #167)

> options(browser=\(url) cat(paste0(url, "\n")))
> quarto::quarto_preview("report.qmd")


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output file: report.knit.md

pandoc 
  to: revealjs
  output-file: report.html
  standalone: true
  wrap: none
  default-image-extension: png
  html-math-method:
    method: mathjax
    url: >-
      https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.0/MathJax.js?config=T
eX-AMS_HTML-full
  slide-level: 2
  
metadata
  link-citations: true
  width: 1050
  height: 700
  margin: 0.1
  center: false
  navigationMode: linear
  controlsLayout: edges
  controlsTutorial: false
  hash: true
  history: true
  hashOneBasedIndex: false
  fragmentInURL: false
  transition: none
  backgroundTransition: none
  pdfSeparateFragments: false
  lang: en
  auto-stretch: true
  editor: visual
  ...
  date: today
  
Output created: report.html

Watching files for changes
Browse at http://localhost:3345/report.html
Stop the preview with quarto_preview_stop()http://localhost:3345
> 

Originally posted by @idavydov in #167 (comment)

[cderv]

@idavydov usually we expect some reproducible example to help understand encountered issue.

Please can you share more about your context ?

• Is report.qmd part of a project for example ?

Also as much details as possible is welcome so that the minimum interpretation from me is required. This helps quickly solve problem.

Thank you !

[idavydov]

thanks, @cderv for creating a new issue. here's the minimal reproducible example which I found so far.

_quarto.yml

project:
 type: default
 

format:
 html:
    toc: true
    toc-depth: 2
    number-sections: true

editor: visual

execute: 
  cache: false

report.qmd

---
format:
  html
---

## hello

to reproduce the issue one could run:

> quarto::quarto_preview("report.qmd")
pandoc 
  to: html
  output-file: report.html
  standalone: true
  section-divs: true
  html-math-method: mathjax
  wrap: none
  default-image-extension: png
  toc: true
  toc-depth: 2
  number-sections: true
  
metadata
  document-css: false
  link-citations: true
  date-format: long
  lang: en
  editor: visual
  
Output created: report.html

Watching files for changes
Browse at http://localhost:7022/report.html
Stop the preview with quarto_preview_stop()> GET: / (404: Not Found)

[idavydov]

quarto version: 1.5.57

sessionInfo()

R version 4.3.3 (2024-02-29)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libblas.so.3 
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libopenblasp-r0.3.20.so;  LAPACK version 3.10.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C               LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8   
 [6] LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8    LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                  LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

time zone: Etc/UTC
tzcode source: system (glibc)

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] quarto_1.4.4   nvimcom_0.9.49

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] digest_0.6.35     later_1.3.2       fastmap_1.1.1     xfun_0.43         knitr_1.46        htmltools_0.5.8.1 rmarkdown_2.26    ps_1.7.6         
 [9] cli_3.6.2         processx_3.8.4    compiler_4.3.3    rstudioapi_0.16.0 tools_4.3.3       evaluate_0.23     yaml_2.3.8        Rcpp_1.0.12      
[17] rlang_1.1.3       jsonlite_1.8.8   

[cderv]

I can't reproduce right now

> quarto::quarto_preview("report.qmd")
pandoc 
  to: html
  output-file: report.html
  standalone: true
  section-divs: true
  html-math-method: mathjax
  wrap: none
  default-image-extension: png
  toc: true
  toc-depth: 2
  number-sections: true
  
metadata
  document-css: false
  link-citations: true
  date-format: long
  lang: en
  editor: visual
  
Output created: report.html

Watching files for changes
Browse at http://localhost:5156/report.html
Stop the preview with quarto_preview_stop()

It opens correctly in IDE.

This is also with CRAN version 1.4.4 🤔

So I am a bit puzzled

[idavydov]

Hi @cderv , just to double check, there are both files (qmd and yml) in the directory you are running, correct?

I tried from two locations: locally on my mac and on linux via ssh. Same results.

Maybe it has something to do with the IDE? I got these results just by calling the R REPL.

[cderv]

Maybe it has something to do with the IDE? I got these results just by calling the R REPL.

I'll try this ! I was assuming work RStudio IDE.

[cderv]

I still can't reproduce. I opened my Terminal, ran R to get the R console and then

> packageVersion("quarto")
[1] '1.4.4'
> quarto::quarto_preview("report.qmd")
pandoc
  to: html
  output-file: report.html
  standalone: true
  section-divs: true
  html-math-method: mathjax
  wrap: none
  default-image-extension: png

metadata
  document-css: false
  link-citations: true
  date-format: long
  lang: en
  title: Report

Output created: report.html

Watching files for changes
Browse at http://localhost:4665/report.html

And it opens the browser in the correct window

Same in R Gui

[idavydov]

just so this doesn't get lost: the bug only reproduces when there's report.qmd as well as _quarto.yml in the directory. with report.qmd alone it works fine.

I just managed to reproduce this in a docker image. I created the two files in ~/x/, installed quarto from CRAN and ran:

> options(browser=function(url) cat(paste0("\nurl: ", url, "\n")))
> quarto::quarto_preview("report.qmd")
pandoc 
  to: html
  output-file: report.html
  standalone: true
  section-divs: true
  html-math-method: mathjax
  wrap: none
  default-image-extension: png
  toc: true
  toc-depth: 2
  number-sections: true
  
metadata
  document-css: false
  link-citations: true
  date-format: long
  lang: en
  editor: visual
  
Output created: report.html

Watching files for changes
Browse at http://localhost:5046/report.html
Stop the preview with quarto_preview_stop()
url: http://localhost:5046
> packageVersion("quarto")
[1] ‘1.4.4’

[cderv]

Oh thanks for the docker image ! This will definitely help understand what is happening. I am really puzzled by this !