Set engine globally in website project

[cbrnr]

I have a website project and I'm trying to set the default engine to knitr. I tried adding this to my _quarto.yml:

engine:
  knitr

However, this doesn't seem to have any effect, because all of my sub-documents still use the Jupyter engine.

[dragonstyle]

I would expect this to work:

engine: knitr

Note that the option is on the same line (the indented next line actually makes that a sub-property of engine rather than it's value).

More on engine binding here:

https://quarto.org/docs/computations/execution-options.html#engine-binding

[cbrnr]

Thanks, this works!

[cscheid]

That's a brutally bad YAML interpretation though on our part, though! Let's see if I can improve it.

[jamesowers-cohere]

So this doesn't work for me. If I have a ```{bash} cell in a .qmd file, quarto tries to use jupyter, even though I have the global setting in my _quarto.yml. Has something changed?

[mcanouil]

Nothing changed. There are no global engine specifications.

• engine: should be respected globally at the _quarto.yml level #3157

(This issue was raised less than two months after this thread)