Including Temporary Files in Quarto and Deleting afterwards

[Jiayou-Chao]

Description

I want to generate some intermediate temporary qmd files but delete them afterwards to make my working directory folder clean.
For example,

```{r}
generate_qmd(path = "temporary.qmd")
```

{{< include temporary.qmd >}}

```{r}
file.remove("temporary.qmd")
```

However, there will be an error message: "could not find file temporary.qmd." To make things even worse, I have to create a temporary.qmd the first time in order for it to run.

Is there a workaround to this? Or should it be a feature request?

[mcanouil]

Use project scripts: https://quarto.org/docs/projects/scripts.html#pre-and-post-render

[Jiayou-Chao]

The quarto project solution seems to work for me. Thank you.

[cscheid]

You're confusing execution orders of different parts of the document. {{< include >}} happens for the entire document before knitr executes the engine cells.