Pandoc error when initializing blog about distill HOT 3 OPEN

this might be a little hard to debug, based on the information you provided.

It's not obvious to me that this is a radix problem (or have you verified that?).

I would recommend:

• rendering the individual posts to HTML (via knitr::knit())
• converting the individual posts to HTML using pandoc on the CLI (pandoc foo.md -o foo.html) (need to rename *.rmds to *.mds first).

If either of those things fail, then the source of the problem may be somewhere else.

Not knowing where the problem stems from, community.rstudio.com might be a better venue to debug this, or StackOverflow (though both would need a complete reproducible example).

Lastly, I don't think there needs to be an extra reminder to install pandoc; radix is an rmarkdown template, and rmarkdown is always powered by pandoc.

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I'm happy to close the issue. It's not important to me, I was just trying to follow the example instructions. (I was trying to help radix development, not my own work.)

Good troubleshooting ideas. Step 1: knitr produces a markdown file that looks right. Step 2: pandoc produces an html file that has no content.

Looks like Pandoc is installed normally, I don't remember if I unzipped pandoc and added it to the path manually or if I used the installer. I probably just installed it for this demo. This is a new computer image and I doubt I had installed pandoc for anything else yet.

If other people are not getting the same error on fresh installs, I'll assume it is me.

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Actually, I would recommend adding these troubleshooting steps to a readme. I think these are great suggestions for basic first steps to confirm that the user has everything installed and on the path.

I would add to the instructions where to look for posts, and here to put the output.

For me this was

knitr::knit(input="_posts/welcome/welcome.Rmd",
            output = "_posts/welcome/welcome.md")

Then at the command line cd to project directory, then pandoc _posts/welcome/welcome.md -o _posts/welcome/welcome.html

Or tell the user where the output belongs, I'm not sure if the html belongs in the same folder as the Rmd and md files.

Thank you

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