quarto use template in R has weird behavior

[JosephBARBIERDARNAL]

Description

Hi!

I have a local template called memo in the templates/memo dir.

• If I run quarto use template templates/memo everything works perfectly (indicating that a priori there is no issue with the template itself).
• If I run quarto::quarto_use_template("template/memo"), I get:

Error in `if (approval) ...`:
! argument is of length zero
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But more generally, running quarto::quarto_use_template() returns the previous error if the input is wrong (?), no matter what kind of error it is (is the github repo not existing? is the path wrong? is something wrong with the extension itself? And so on).

quarto version: 1.6.42
OS: macos sequoia

[mcanouil]

It's likely a bug in the R package, the repository for the R package is https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-r/issues

[JosephBARBIERDARNAL]

Thanks! I'll ask there then

[cderv]

For anyone finding this here, this is solve in quarto R package version in development as of 24th march 2025

install with

pak::pak("quarto-dev/quarto-r")

or using a built version

install.packages('quarto', repos = c('https://quarto-dev.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))