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  1. Working in your penguins-report.qmd file, before Introduction, add a first-level heading that says “Funders”

  2. Add this text below the Funders first-level heading:

This report was commissioned by:

  1. The International Society of Penguin Enthusiasts and Waddle Admirers

  2. The Coalition of People Who Are Definitely Not Anti-Penguin

  3. The International Coalition for the Appreciation and Ethical Treatment of Penguins

They are very excited about this report and they really hope you are too.

  1. Render your report again and make sure you see the changes.

Have any questions? Put them below and we will help you out!

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Veronica Doucette

Veronica Doucette • November 3, 2026

Hi, When I changed the format to html

---
title:  My Super Fancy Penguins Report
author:  Veronica Doucette
format:  html
---

I got an error message. I can run the script in RStudio just fine. This is the error:

Error: The name of the input file cannot contain the special shell characters: [ <>()|\:&;#?*'] (attempted to copy to a version without those characters 'New-Quarto-Folder-03Nov2026.rmarkdown' however that file already exists)
Execution halted
WARN: Error encountered when rendering files
Gracielle Higino

Gracielle Higino Coach • November 4, 2026

Hi Veronica! I spent the day thinking about this problem and I can't give you a definitive answer. It seems like you have extra spaces in your YAML between the : and the following text (you only need one and you have two, at least based on what you sent here). Try removing that and rendering again.

If removing the spaces doesn't work, what I would try is to get rid of all files and folders that are not your Quarto document, code and data folders (data and data-raw), then render it again.

Let me know how it goes!

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