quarto not finding library installed in renv when pressing "render" button in RStudio

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Hey!
I stumbled on an issue where the button "render" for my quarto document located at say /docs/myquarto.qmd would fail telling me that {dplyr} wasnt installed.

Dplyr is clearly installed in my renv.

Solution I went with was to add a an empty files named _quarto.yml at the root of my repo.
Inspired by the discussion here:

possibility to specify renv for quarto render?

Hi @cderv , ah yes indeed. the renv.lock is in the main folder of the RStudio Project, whereas the quarto book is at least one folder down. (I tried copying the renv.lock into the quarto book folder, but that did not help) Any tipps on how I could make the quarto render aware that it is part of a project whose root folder is somewhere else? Or alternatively do you have another suggestion of how to set something like this up - a main analysis project and a quarto book which needs both the renv, some functions and data from the main project?

Thought I'd share as I was surprised that the quarto render wouldnt figure something like that out since there is an .Rproj file in the root of my repo too.