Pagedown Error Shooting

I am now trying to create my curriculum vitae using Pagedown by Yihui Xie . My Mac system is very old: I am still using OS XYosemite (10.10.5). Therefore, I face limitations on the version of R I can use.

Error when downloading Pagedown #

When downloading pagedown, I tried the method recommended by the Pagedown Homepage , i.e., remotes::install_github('rstudio/pagedown') but this does not work for me. There will always be errors.

It will tell me that:

These packages have more recent versions available.
Which would you like to update?

...

Enter one or more numbers, or an empty line to skip updates:

I entered an empty line, then it said:

Installing 1 packages: websocket
Error: Failed to install 'pagedown' from GitHub:
  (converted from warning) unable to access index for repository https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.3:
  cannot download all files

So I gave up.

Then I tried the traditinal way of downloading packages in Rstudio, install.packages("pagedown"). It worked well.

Package which is only available in source form, and may need compilation of
  C/C++/Fortran: 'websocket'
Do you want to attempt to install these from sources?
y/n:

I input y, and then it worked.

Thanks.

Error when Knitting #

I could not reproduce the problem now, but there seemed to be something wrong with my Pandoc version. I tried this method (using homebrew), but it did not work for me, probabily because of my old Mac OS version. I also tried simply downloaded the latested installer for macOS, but still, it did not work: ever after installing the latest version, when I typed pandoc --version in my Terminal, it still showed the old version number.

I then went to Pandoc Releases , and downloaded pandoc-2.9.2.1-macOS.zip and dragged the pandoc and pandoc-citeproc into my /user/local/bin¹, but still, the terminal showed that I am using the old version, and Pagedown did not work.

Then I took a closer look at what the Terminal says. It says my pandoc document is located in a place rather than /user/local/bin. That is the problem. So I dragged the the two files to the right location, and this time, it works. Terminal shows that I have the latest version of pandoc, and pagedown also worked.

Error when rendering pagedown file #

When I clicked Knit, it worked. However, when I clicked the output .html file, it did not show anything on Firefox. Thanks to an answer in one of the Pagedown Github issues, I solved the problem. Simply changed self_contained:false to ‘self_contained:true’ solved the problem.

Now, I can use Pagedown. Thanks for Yihui and other contributors.

Last modified on 2021-10-05