Downloads and installs pandoc — install.pandoc • installr

Downloads and installs the latest version of pandoc for Windows.

install.pandoc(
  URL = "https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases",
  use_regex = TRUE,
  to_restart,
  ...
)

Arguments

URL	a link to the list of download links of pandoc
use_regex	(default TRUE) - deprecated (kept for legacy purposes).
to_restart	boolean. Should the computer be restarted after pandoc is installed? (if missing then the user is prompted for a decision)
...	extra parameters to pass to install.URL

Source

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15071957/is-it-possible-to-install-pandoc-on-windows-using-an-r-command

Value

TRUE/FALSE - was the installation successful or not.

Details

pandoc is a free open source software for converting documents from many filetypes to many filetypes. For details, see https://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/.

Credit: the code in this function is based on GERGELY DAROCZIs coding in his answer on the Q&A forum StackOverflow, and also G. Grothendieck for the non-XML addition to the function. I thank them both!

Author

GERGELY DAROCZI, G. Grothendieck, Tal Galili

Examples

if (FALSE) {
install.pandoc() 
}