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installr (version 0.22.0)

install.pandoc: Downloads and installs pandoc

Description

Downloads and installs the latest version of pandoc for Windows.

Usage

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

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 http://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!

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
install.pandoc() 
# }

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