Quarto Manuscripts - trouble rendering preview

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I'm trying to run through the tutorial on creating a Quarto Manuscript, which I was very excited about - see here: Quarto Manuscripts Tutorial. However, while following the tutorial exactly to the letter (going to GitHub, cloning the repository, creating a new project from Git in the RStudio interface, opening the index file, and rendering it), RStudio hangs on generating the preview. I get the message "Preparing to preview" in the Background Jobs pane, but no preview appears in the Viewer pane and the job keeps running until I cancel it.

I am running Quarto Version 1.4.530 and R version 4.3.2 on RStudio 2023.12.0+369 on a Macbook Pro Intel running Mac OS Ventura. The output of 'quarto check' is below.

Quarto 1.4.530
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.1.11: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.69.5: OK
      Deno version 1.37.2: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.4.530
      Path: /Applications/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: (external install)
      Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: TinyTex
      Path: /Users/deborahapthorp/Library/TinyTeX/bin/universal-darwin
      Version: undefined
[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.11.5
      Path: /usr/local/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: 4.3.2
      Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
      LibPaths:
        - /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-x86_64/Resources/library
      knitr: 1.45
      rmarkdown: 2.25

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

Any clues as to what might be going on? Oddly I did try installing Jupyter as mentioned in the check, and it seemed to install OK, but I'm still getting the same message. There isn't any Python code in the manuscript example, though, so I don't see why this should be a problem.

Thanks!

Deborah.

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I have encountered the exact same issue -- it seems to occur when trying to render any .qmd file in the directory (e.g., even for those included in the notebooks subdirectory)

Quarto 1.4.533
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
Pandoc version 3.1.11: OK
Dart Sass version 1.69.5: OK
Deno version 1.37.2: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
Version: 1.4.533
Path: /Applications/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
TinyTeX: (not installed)
Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
Using: Installation From Path
Path: /Library/TeX/texbin
Version: 2023

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

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
Version: 3.11.4
Path: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/bin/python3
Jupyter: 5.5.1
Kernels: python3

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

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
Version: 4.3.2
Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
LibPaths:
- /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/library
knitr: 1.45
rmarkdown: 2.25

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

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Adding: I can get past the hangup on "preparing to preview" by disabling freeze. But while the background process finishes, it does not actually preview anything after it's done.

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Thanks. I have open an issue to track at :

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This should be resolved in next pre-release build of 1.4 which will be v1.4.534 or above.

Not yet build, but probably soon this week. Thank for the report!

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