Hi,
While I was testing the build 353 of RStudio IDE on my windows machine (I extracted from a zip file), I was getting a similar error as described in the following post
[Quarto website rendering, but Rstudio not previewing]
After spending a few hours trying to figure out how to solve the issue, I ended up landing on the folder
C:...\RStudio-2022.12.0-353\resources\app\bin\quarto\share\rmd
This folder hosts the "execute.R" script that contains the "execute" function associated with the render button that triggers generation of PDF output. Line 12
oldwd <- setwd(dirname(rmarkdown:::abs_path(input)))
Displays content very similar to the error message I was getting on the Background Jobs panel. Then, I decided to comment out line 12 and inserted the following line right after it
oldwd <- setwd(getwd())
After saving the "execute .R" script and re-running my quarto document, I was finally able to generate PDF output.
I hope this helps other users facing a similar issue and suggest a fairly easy to do change in the RStudio IDE Zip file published by posit.
Thank you very much.