Generating pandoc error when trying to launch Scenario Explorer

[lanceDamage]

I am trying to launch Scenario Explorer and I am getting the following error in my browser:

"Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 1"

Alicia explains very well why this happens when transitioning from an html document: ropensci/iheatmapr#4
This did not work: Alternative fix involving removing of Pandoc: rstudio/rmarkdown#1184 [devtools::install_github('rstudio/rmarkdown')]
Alternative fix involved installing a markdown package found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47323389/pandoc-document-conversion-failed-with-error-1-after-update-to-r-version-3-4-2

[lanceDamage]

sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS High Sierra 10.13.3

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] pander_0.6.1 tidyr_0.8.0 psych_1.7.8 purrr_0.2.4 ggalt_0.4.0
[6] extrafont_0.17 ggplot2_2.2.1 viridis_0.5.0 viridisLite_0.3.0 scales_0.5.0
[11] bindrcpp_0.2 evaluator_0.1.1 readr_1.1.1 dplyr_0.7.4 shiny_1.0.5

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] maps_3.2.0 purrrlyr_0.0.2 jsonlite_1.5 assertthat_0.2.0
[5] highr_0.6 cellranger_1.1.0 yaml_2.1.16 Rttf2pt1_1.3.5
[9] pillar_1.1.0 backports_1.1.2 lattice_0.20-35 glue_1.2.0
[13] extrafontdb_1.0 digest_0.6.15 RColorBrewer_1.1-2 colorspace_1.3-2
[17] htmltools_0.3.6 httpuv_1.3.5 plyr_1.8.4 pkgconfig_2.0.1
[21] flexdashboard_0.5.1 xtable_1.8-2 tibble_1.4.2 DT_0.4
[25] lazyeval_0.2.1 cli_1.0.0 mnormt_1.5-5 magrittr_1.5
[29] crayon_1.3.4 readxl_1.0.0 mime_0.5 memoise_1.1.0
[33] evaluate_0.10.1 ash_1.0-15 nlme_3.1-131 MASS_7.3-47
[37] foreign_0.8-69 tools_3.4.1 hms_0.4.1 stringr_1.2.0
[41] munsell_0.4.3 bazar_1.0.6 kimisc_0.4 compiler_3.4.1
[45] rlang_0.1.6 grid_3.4.1 rstudioapi_0.7 htmlwidgets_1.0
[49] crosstalk_1.0.0 labeling_0.3 rmarkdown_1.8 proj4_1.0-8
[53] gtable_0.2.0 reshape2_1.4.3 statip_0.1.5 R6_2.2.2
[57] gridExtra_2.3 knitr_1.19 utf8_1.1.3 bindr_0.1
[61] rprojroot_1.3-2 KernSmooth_2.23-15 stringi_1.1.6 parallel_3.4.1
[65] Rcpp_0.12.15 tidyselect_0.2.3

[lanceDamage]

SOLUTION:

In the workflow instructions I suggest fully explaining that Shiny.io needs to be signed up for and that the "rsconnect" package needs to be loaded and a valid token provided.

[davidski]

Would you provide the exact command you were running that generated that error? Having Shiny.io credentials should not be necessary for running the standard explore_scenarios function. That Shiny app runs on the local system and shouldn't have any external dependencies. Would like to delve into this more and try to reproduce. Thanks for the report!

[davidski]

Hey @lanceDamage. Checking in on this issue. Can you provide the command you were running for explore_scenarios? I'm unable to reproduce and Shiny.IO credentials shouldn't be required for running that function. 😖

[lanceDamage]

Ok, will do, sorry I've been unresponsive so far. I've been working two jobs the past couple weeks. I will return to it this evening if not sooner. Thanks David

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[lanceDamage]

@davidski , I tried replicating this on the same system, and on an independent Windows 10 system and I couldn't replicate the error. I must assume it was operator error on my part. I'm not having any trouble now with these errors. I think we can close this issue.

[davidski]

Darn. I hate those sorts of issues. :/ Glad it's working for you now though!