Live Quarto extension handled differently by Positron/VS Code vs RStudio #13077
Description
Bug description
Hi,
Both VS Code and Positron handle the live Quarto extension differently from RStudio.
Steps to reproduce
- Create a book project
my_book. - Install
quarto-livein the root folder:quarto add r-wasm/quarto-live. - Create another folder, say
chapter_01 - In
chapter_01createchapter_01.qmd.
- Populate the file with
---
title: "Chapter-01"
format: live-html
engine: knitr
webr:
packages:
- tidyverse
- infer
- insight
---
{{< include ../_extensions/r-wasm/live/_knitr.qmd >}}
```{webr}
# Testing
```
- Add
- chapter_01/chapter_01.qmdtochapter:in_quarto.yml.
Just for reference:
If you render this project using VS Code or Positron, it will not work properly.
If you render using RStudio it will.
Actual behavior
- Rendering using VS Code:
Expected behavior
- Rendering using RStudio:
Your environment
Quarto: 1.7.32
Positron:
Positron Version: 2025.07.0 build 204
Code - OSS Version: 1.100.3
Commit: 03ae7a5393c776bb24c23d2aa6a6bfbba90cbc5e
Date: 2025-06-30T16:29:03.492Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0
Rstudio:
RStudio 2025.05.1+513 "Mariposa Orchid" Release (ab7c1bc795c7dcff8f26215b832a3649a19fc16c, 2025-05-30) for macOS
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) RStudio/2025.05.1+513 Chrome/132.0.6834.210 Electron/34.5.1 Safari/537.36, Quarto 1.7.32 (/Applications/quarto/bin/quarto)