cannot render .rmd.

After I hit <kbd>knit</kbd>, I got the following

rmarkdown::render("c:\\Users\\b811792\\Documents\\edu_research\\plan.rmd", e$

Nothing is rendered, I can render successfully in RStudio though.

screenshot here: any idea?

[Yinqi93]

Hi @ElianHugh , thanks a lot! I just tried the latest dev release and it works smoothly!. Huge thanks to you all for bringing this amazing extension to the R community!

[bhannawa]

Hi,

I was reading this issue and I think this answer from Yihue does the trick https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28432607/pandoc-version-1-12-3-or-higher-is-required-and-was-not-found-r-shiny

On Windows, this solution only worked for me when I manually ran the commands through the R terminal, but I was still unable to use the vscode-R “Knit to PDF” command. For Windows users to allow vscode to render rmarkdown files, add an environment variable to Windows so R knows where pandoc is located.

You can find the pandoc folder by running the pandoc_exec() command from an R terminal with the library(rmarkdown) loaded. Yours may differ, but mine was “C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/pandoc”. Copy that location, then navigate to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\User Accounts and select “Change my environment variables” from the sidebar. Add a new user variable with Variable name: RSTUDIO_PANDOC and Variable value: [PASTE IN YOUR PANDOC W/O QUOTES]. Hit OK, restart VSCode, and you should be good to go.