Installing Pandoc from R (on Windows) – using the {installr} package

The R blogger Rolf Fredheim has recently wrote a great piece called “Reproducible research with R, Knitr, Pandoc and Word“, where he advocates for Pandoc as an essential part of reproducible research workflow in R, in helping to turn documents which are knitted in R into high quality Word for exchanging with our colleagues. It is a great post, with many useful bits of code, and I wanted to supplement it with one missing function: “install.pandoc“.

Update: the install.pandoc function is now part of the {installr} package.

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