[R-pkg-devel] pandoc version used in winbuilder

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 2:52 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>
wrote:
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>
> It takes work to install a new version, and presumably nobody has done
> that work.  Pandoc is not easy to build, so some CRAN machines don't
> have it at all.
>

Pandoc is indeed not easy to build. Luckily, we don't have to build it
ourselves. R-hub has fully static self-contained binaries for 1.x:
https://files.r-hub.io/pandoc/
https://github.com/r-hub/pandoc-builders#static-binaries

and there are official static binaries and installers for 2.x:
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases

Gabor

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