Convert .qmd to .ipynb

[JosiahParry]

Description

Related: #9463

I have a number of .qmd files that I want to programmatically convert to executable .ipynb (not rendered HTML) using the Ark kernel.

Is quarto capable of doing this conversion for us?

[mcanouil]

Assuming you provide the kernel information in your Quarto document, quarto convert will (should) make Jupyter notebook.

• https://quarto.org/docs/computations/python.html#kernel-selection

---

---
title: "Reproducible Quarto Document"
format: html
engine: jupyter
jupyter: ark
---

```{r}
x <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
y <- c(1, 4, 9, 16, 25)

plot(x, y)
```

```{r}
#| output: asis
cat("This is a **markdown** document.")
```

[mcanouil]

Even when setting the full spec, you will still need the kernel to be installed and in VSCode (not tested on Positron but likely to be the same), you still have to manually select the kernel (same thing happens with any Jupyter notebooks).

jupyter: 
  kernelspec:
    name: "ark"
    language: "R"
    display_name: "Ark R Kernel"

Setup:

• Codespaces (https://github.com/mcanouil/quarto-codespaces)
• Ark

  VERSION=0.1.195
  curl -L -o /tmp/ark.zip "https://github.com/posit-dev/ark/releases/download/${VERSION}/ark-${VERSION}-linux-x64.zip"
  unzip -o /tmp/ark.zip ark -d ${HOME}/bin/
  export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
  ark --install

[JosiahParry]

@mcanouil thank you so much for the thorough response. I'll follow back up at a later point when we explore this at work. :) I'll mark resolved for now.