fails if doc is in a subdirectory

[rmflight]

If a document is in a sub-directory and the execute directory is not the sub-directory, then a quarto -> docx document with a gt table will fail to render.

This is important in particular for targets workflows, where to have access to the targets environment, the document is rendered with the execute_dir at the top level.
Or at least that is the config bit I modify to be able to test document renders outside of the actual targets workflow.

I’ve created a repo here with the files that are rendered below.
Note that d2.qmd and doc/d1.qmd are essentially identical documents with the same code, just their physical location in the filesystem are slightly different, and they are generating very basic gt tables.

Top Level Renders Fine

quarto::quarto_render("d2.qmd")

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In A Sub-Directory With execute_dir as Top Level

quarto::quarto_render("doc/d1.qmd", execute_dir = getwd())

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## Error in "processx::run(quarto_bin, args, echo = TRUE)": ! System command 'quarto' failed

In A Sub-Directory With No execute_dir

quarto::quarto_render("doc/d1.qmd")

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## Output created: d1.docx

[rmflight]

Forgot to add:

• gt v 0.7.0
• quarto v 1.2
• R v 4.2.1, Linux, Ubuntu like OS (Pop!OS)

[gorkang]

This is probably related with: ropensci/targets#920 (comment)

In that case, reverting to gt 0.6.0 made the problem disappear.

In that discussion, @wlandau proposes a specific change to solve the issue:

This can be fixed if https://github.com/rstudio/gt/blob/a585bd6a916cca767c7a2e3e72eda8f91c2f67f5/R/print.R#L27 uses knitr::current_input(dir = TRUE) instead of knitr::current_input().

[rmflight]

I think it is likely related. However, the whole reason I was using gt 0.7.0 was for docx support, as I would really like quarto based documents to word documents, with table auto-numbering (flextable & quarto don't support that quite yet), in a targets workflow. So 0.6.0 is a no go.