# How to make Quarto with Julia in VSCode work?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-quarto-with-julia-in-vscode-work/111882>\
**Category:** VS Code\
**Tags:** jupyter, kernel, quarto\
**Created:** [March 20, 2024, 2:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-quarto-with-julia-in-vscode-work/111882 "2024-03-20T14:42:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hugo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@Hugo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Hugo)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 2:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-quarto-with-julia-in-vscode-work/111882/1 "2024-03-20T14:42:36Z")

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I am facing difficulties trying to use Quarto in VSCode with Julia (again). I have asked a question here before (see [this](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/still-not-able-to-render-a-quarto-file-qmd-using-julia-in-vscode-help/98701/4)), but at the time I gave using Quarto in VSCode with Julia and simply used Quarto in RStudio with R. However, I’d like to give it another shot.

When I run `quarto check` on the Quarto terminal in VSCode, I get the following output. Note that the error message is the same I asked about in my previous post.

```julia
[>] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.2.335
      Path: C:\Users\hsd36\AppData\Local\Programs\Quarto\bin
      CodePage: 1252

[>] Checking basic markdown render....OK

ERROR: The file cannot be accessed by the system. (os error 1920), stat 'C:\Users\hsd36\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python3.9.exe'

```

Now, if I run the same command on the terminal in in RStudio, I get the following. This time `Checking Quarto Installation`, `Checking basic markdown render`, `Checking Python 3 installation`, `Checking Jupyter engine render` are all OK. There is an `ImportError` related to a `DLL`, and I don’t know what to make out of it.

```julia
$ quarto check

[>] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.2.335
      Path: C:\Users\hsd36\AppData\Local\Programs\Quarto\bin
      CodePage: 1252

[>] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[>] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.9.5 (Conda)
      Path: C:/Users/hsd36/.julia/conda/3/python.exe
      Jupyter: 4.11.1
      Kernels: julia-1.6, julia-1.8, julia-1.9, python3

(|) Checking Jupyter engine render....Traceback (most recent
call last):
  File "C:\Users\hsd36\AppData\Local\Programs\Quarto\share\jupyter\jupyter.py", line 21, in <module>
    from notebook import notebook_execute, RestartKernel
  File "C:\Users\hsd36\AppData\Local\Programs\Quarto\share\jupyter\notebook.py", line 18, in <module>
    from nbclient import NotebookClient
  File "C:\Users\hsd36\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\nbclient\ __init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from .client import NotebookClient, execute # noqa: F401 File "C:\Users\hsd36\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\nbclient\client.py", line 14, in <module>
    from jupyter_client import KernelManager
  File "C:\Users\hsd36\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\jupyter_client\ __init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from .asynchronous import AsyncKernelClient # noqa
  File "C:\Users\hsd36\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\jupyter_client\asynchronous\ __init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .client import AsyncKernelClient # noqa
  File "C:\Users\hsd36\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\jupyter_client\asynchronous\client.py", line 6, in <module>
    from jupyter_client.channels import HBChannel
  File "C:\Users\hsd36\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\jupyter_client\channels.py", line 12, in <module>
    import zmq.asyncio
  File "C:\Users\hsd36\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\zmq\ __init__.py", line 103, in <module>
    from zmq import backend
  File "C:\Users\hsd36\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\zmq\backend\ __init__.py", line 31, in <module>
    raise original_error from None
  File "C:\Users\hsd36\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\zmq\backend\ __init__.py", line 26, in <module>
    _ns = select_backend(first)
  File "C:\Users\hsd36\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\zmq\backend\select.py", line 31, in select_backend
    mod = import_module(name)
  File "C:\Users\hsd36\.julia\conda\3\lib\importlib\ __init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "C:\Users\hsd36\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\zmq\backend\cython\ __init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from . import (
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _device: The specified module could not be found.
[>] Checking Jupyter engine render....OK

```

I should say that I use Julia in VSCode frequently and have no problem running code. I also have installed `IJulia`, and when I run `notebook()`, I’m not prompted to install `(Mini)Conda`, which I take it as a sign that it’s already installed — not surprising given the results in `Checking Python 3 Installation ... OK`.

At this point, I do not know what else I should do. All help will be appreciated. I will also look into the possibility of using Quarto with Julia in RStudio. If you know if it’s possible, let me know.

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**Author:** ![dmbates](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dmbates/32/44_2.png) [@dmbates](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dmbates)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-quarto-with-julia-in-vscode-work/111882/2 "2024-03-20T15:17:55Z")

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That’s a very old version of Quarto. The latest release is v1.4.551

Is there a reason that you are using that Quarto version?

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-quarto-with-julia-in-vscode-work/111882/3 "2024-03-20T17:22:00Z")

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You may also keep an eye on [Native Julia engine based on QuartoNotebookRunner.jl by jkrumbiegel · Pull Request #8645 · quarto-dev/quarto-cli · GitHub](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/pull/8645) which will add a native Julia rendering mechanism to quarto. The package you can already use to manually render the ipynb intermediary is [GitHub - PumasAI/QuartoNotebookRunner.jl](https://github.com/PumasAI/QuartoNotebookRunner.jl/)

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**Author:** ![Hugo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@Hugo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Hugo)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-quarto-with-julia-in-vscode-work/111882/4 "2024-03-27T21:06:11Z")

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There wasn’t any specific reason. I downloaded the new version, but the problem persists.

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**Author:** ![Hugo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@Hugo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Hugo)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-quarto-with-julia-in-vscode-work/111882/5 "2024-03-27T21:07:02Z")

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Thank you. I’ll certainly follow it.