Include Quarto templates in R Package

[Pecners]

Bug description

Is it possible to include Quarto templates in an R Package, as is possible for R Markdown? I've tried following the same methodology as for R Markdown, i.e. I added template resources to inst/quarto/templates, but that doesn't seem to work.

I'm working in RStudio, and I'm expecting to select the template as from the "New R Markdown", shown here:

I'm not seeing the same capability with "New Quarto Document" after updating my package with template material:

RStudio Version:

RStudio 2022.02.3+492 "Prairie Trillium" Release (1db809b8323ba0a87c148d16eb84efe39a8e7785, 2022-05-20) for Windows
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.12.8 Chrome/69.0.3497.128 Safari/537.36

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• formatted your issue so it is easier for us to read?
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[jjallaire]

No that isn't currently supported however we are working on a templates mechanism for quarto which should be available soon!

[Pecners]

Wow that was a response within 1 minute, thanks!

[cderv]

Hey @Pecners, I'll reopen so that once the template mechanism is finally done for Quarto, we don't forget to document a comparaison with R Markdown template mechanism to make them available, and we see if making them available through R package is possible. (The quarto template mechanism should make possible to share template in various way and R package may not be the best way).

Thanks for opening the question / suggestion by the way!

[dragonstyle]

We don't current support templates via the RStudio dialogs, but the templating mechanism for the CLI is now supported and documented.

https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/formats.html#format-templates

The best exemplars of this are currently the journal article templates which bundle extensions plus a template:

https://quarto.org/docs/journals/

Note that templates really can be a simple as a repo with contents - there is no requirement to create a format extension as well, though that is often useful.

We'll leave rstudio/rstudio#11316 as an issue to track improving support within RStudio

[isaactpetersen]

Would it be possible to add support for Quarto templates via RStudio dialogs (as is supported with R Markdown templates)? This will allow Quarto to be more accessible, including to students.

[cscheid]

RStudio dialogs

That would be a feature request for https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio