Help request reconciling Quarto version I'm using

[stefaniebutland]

@ateucher another help request. I feel like this is up your alley 🙇🏼 . Not urgent; Quarto working fine for me AFAIK

I've got up to date R and RStudio but out of date Quarto? Is my Path pointing to an old Quarto version instead of inside RStudio? I think I had originally installed Quarto using homebrew.

RStudio & Posit Workbench Release Notes says in RStudio 2024.04.0 RStudio > About will "Show Quarto version information in the About dialog. (#14263)"

My RStudio is v2024.04.1 but RStudio > About does not show Quarto version

My quarto check says

[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      **Version: 1.3.450**
      Path: /Applications/quarto/bin

But Quarto download page says current version is 1.4.554

stefaniebutland$ 

[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.1.1: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.55.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      **Version: 1.3.450**
      Path: /Applications/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.11.4
      Path: /opt/homebrew/opt/python@3.11/bin/python3.11
      Jupyter: (None)

      Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
      Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.4.0
      Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
      LibPaths:
        - /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/library
      knitr: 1.46
      rmarkdown: 2.26

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

[ateucher]

I don't believe quarto is bundled with RStudio, so the version of quarto you are seeing will be the one you installed yourself, via homebrew or from downloading from the website - it won't get upgraded when you upgrade RStudio.

I was able to see the quarto version via Help > About RStudio rather than RStudio > About RStudio. That is an unfortunate design quirk!

You can check if you previously installed quarto with homebrew by doing brew list - it should show up under the "casks" section. If it's there you should be able to upgrade it with brew upgrade quarto (if not, brew install quarto). Or you can do it by downloading from the downloads page. There's no real difference other than personal preference.

[stefaniebutland]

Resolved thank you!

Help > About RStudio distinction super helpful thanks! I've downloaded new Quarto version and now I see it in Help > About RStudio

My thinking RStudio came with Quarto came from posit community forum

The quarto you are actually using is shipped with RStudio IDE. If none is found installed, it will be using that one. If you install a new one, RStudio IDE should find it, and use the new one.

Notes to self: My Quarto had not been installed w homebrew, so likely was from Quarto site download

stefaniebutland$ brew upgrade quarto
Error: Cask 'quarto' is not installed.

[ateucher]

Oh that is good to know - I guess I was wrong!

[stefaniebutland]

was still a bit strange that it was using an older Quarto version despite me having up to date RStudio, but I'll let that one go ;-)

[ateucher]

Yeah, an interesting case. It looks like RStudio ships with quarto v1.4.533, but as it preferentially uses the one you have installed outside RStudio (as noted in the forum post), it used that one (an older version).