I'm playing with Quarto Books for the first time having been a R/bookdown user for a while. I have a simple book with two chapters. In the first chapter I define a variable , x, and I want to then use x in my second chapter. In bookdown this works fine. But with Quarto I get, "Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object 'x' not found" when I click render in RStudio. I'm very willing to accept user error, or that independence of chapters is a design choice. But it wasn't something I was expecting.

I've attached a worked example.

What I'm actually more interesting in working out is how to pass params (from a YAML header) from chapter to chapter. Previously I could include something like this in the index file:

---
params:
  hello: world
---

and then access it in all other chapters
test_params_quorto.zip
.