Quarto thinks I want to render a book?

[hamedbh]

I have a document, taxi_report.qmd that I want to render. It's a simple report that reads in a couple of small datasets from csv, then generates a few plots. But when I try to render it with quarto render taxi_report.qmd -t html I get this error:

ERROR: Book chapter 'intro.qmd' not found

Stack trace:
    at throwInputNotFound (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:90695:19)
    at findInputs (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:90726:17)
    at eventLoopTick (ext:core/01_core.js:183:11)
    at async findChapters (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:90738:13)
    at async bookRenderItems (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:90741:5)
    at async Object.bookProjectConfig [as config] (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:90647:25)
    at async projectContext (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:72806:37)
    at async render (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:81784:19)
    at async Command.fn (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:81959:32)
    at async Command.execute (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:8104:13)

This suggests to me that quarto thinks I want to render a book, but I don't! I don't have any _quarto.yml file at the top level of my project either. Here's the results of tree on my directory (only two levels deep).

.
├── data
│   ├── processed
│   └── raw
├── dependencies.R
├── download_taxi_data
├── Makefile
├── multilingual-example.Rproj
├── notebooks
│   └── duckdb_explore.ipynb
├── outputs
├── project_setup
├── pyproject.toml
├── README.md
├── renv
│   ├── activate.R
│   ├── library
│   ├── settings.json
│   └── staging
├── renv.lock
├── requirements.txt
├── setup.cfg
├── src
│   ├── data
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── locations.py
│   └── src.egg-info
├── taxi_report.qmd
└── test
    └── test_example.py

If I create a new directory, copy in only the .qmd file and the required data, then it works. I cannot figure out what it is that might be telling quarto that I'm trying to render a book, and that it should look for intro.qmd. Can anyone help?

I should also add that I've looked for any files called intro.qmd on my machine and looked for any reference to that file anywhere in my project, and found neither.

[cderv]

@hamedbh

I don't have any _quarto.yml file at the top level of my project either.

Do you have one somewhere in parent directory by any chance ? Could there be one there ?

We may my find some in parent directory as we'll look when no _quarto.yml present.

By the way, adding a _quarto.yml in your current main project folder should help solve the issue

[hamedbh]

Thanks, @cderv: it turns out that there is a YAML file at the level above that refers to intro.qmd, which explains it. In the meantime I had tried adding a _quarto.yml file at the top of the directory, and that did the trick. Its contents are just:

project:
  type: default
  output-dir: outputs

Thank you for your help!