'avoid "pandoc document conversion failed with error 61" for `github_document`
I keep failing to knit a github_document because of the error shown below. A solution to avoid this was provided in this question for html_document. But that argument is not available for github_document, and so I am wondering if there is another solution to avoid this error.
Error details:
"C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS README.utf8.md --to gfm --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+tex_math_single_backslash --output README.md --standalone --webtex --template "C:\Users\inp099\Documents\R\win-library\4.0\rmarkdown\rmarkdown\templates\github_document\resources\default.md"
output file: README.knit.md
"C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS README.md --to html4 --from gfm --output README.html --standalone --self-contained --highlight-style pygments --template "C:\Users\inp099\Documents\R\win-library\4.0\rmarkdown\rmarkdown\templates\github_document\resources\preview.html" --variable "github-markdown-css:C:\Users\inp099\Documents\R\win-library\4.0\rmarkdown\rmarkdown\templates\github_document\resources\github.css" --email-obfuscation none --metadata pagetitle=PREVIEW
Could not fetch https://latex.codecogs.com/png.latex?%5Ccheckmark
HttpExceptionRequest Request {
host = "latex.codecogs.com"
port = 443
secure = True
requestHeaders = []
path = "/png.latex"
queryString = "?%5Ccheckmark"
method = "GET"
proxy = Nothing
rawBody = False
redirectCount = 10
responseTimeout = ResponseTimeoutDefault
requestVersion = HTTP/1.1
}
(InternalException (HostCannotConnect "latex.codecogs.com" [Network.Socket.connect: <socket: 940>: failed (Connection timed out (WSAETIMEDOUT))]))
Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 61
In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first 50)
Execution halted
yaml is the following:
---
output:
github_document:
pandoc_args: --webtex
---
Some additional information that might be of importance:
library(rmarkdown)
sessioninfo::session_info(include_base = TRUE)
#> - Session info ---------------------------------------------------------------
#> setting value
#> version R Under development (unstable) (2020-02-28 r77874)
#> os Windows 10 x64
#> system x86_64, mingw32
#> ui RTerm
#> language (EN)
#> collate English_United States.1252
#> ctype English_United States.1252
#> tz Europe/Berlin
#> date 2020-03-31
#>
#> - Packages -------------------------------------------------------------------
#> ! package * version date lib source
#> assertthat 0.2.1 2019-03-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> backports 1.1.5 2019-10-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> base * 4.0.0 2020-02-29 [?] local
#> cli 2.0.2 2020-02-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> P compiler 4.0.0 2020-02-29 [2] local
#> crayon 1.3.4 2017-09-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> P datasets * 4.0.0 2020-02-29 [2] local
#> digest 0.6.25 2020-02-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> ellipsis 0.3.0 2019-09-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> evaluate 0.14 2019-05-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> fansi 0.4.1 2020-01-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> fs 1.3.2 2020-03-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> glue 1.3.2 2020-03-12 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> P graphics * 4.0.0 2020-02-29 [2] local
#> P grDevices * 4.0.0 2020-02-29 [2] local
#> highr 0.8 2019-03-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> htmltools 0.4.0 2019-10-04 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> knitr 1.28 2020-02-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> lifecycle 0.2.0.9000 2020-03-16 [1] Github (r-lib/lifecycle@355dcba)
#> magrittr 1.5 2014-11-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> P methods * 4.0.0 2020-02-29 [2] local
#> pillar 1.4.3 2019-12-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> pkgconfig 2.0.3 2019-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> purrr 0.3.3 2019-10-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> Rcpp 1.0.4 2020-03-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> reprex 0.3.0.9001 2020-03-25 [1] Github (tidyverse/reprex@a019cc4)
#> rlang 0.4.5 2020-03-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> rmarkdown * 2.1 2020-01-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> rstudioapi 0.11 2020-02-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> sessioninfo 1.1.1 2018-11-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> P stats * 4.0.0 2020-02-29 [2] local
#> stringi 1.4.6 2020-02-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> stringr 1.4.0 2019-02-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> styler 1.3.2 2020-02-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> tibble 3.0.0 2020-03-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> P tools 4.0.0 2020-02-29 [2] local
#> P utils * 4.0.0 2020-02-29 [2] local
#> vctrs 0.2.4 2020-03-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> withr 2.1.2 2018-03-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> xfun 0.12 2020-01-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#> yaml 2.2.1 2020-02-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
#>
#> [1] C:/Users/inp099/Documents/R/win-library/4.0
#> [2] C:/Program Files/R/R-devel/library
#>
#> P -- Loaded and on-disk path mismatch.
rmarkdown::pandoc_version()
#> [1] '2.9.2.1'
Solution 1:[1]
---
title: "A Quick Fix"
author: "Christopher Schwarz"
date: "3 April 2020"
output:
github_document:
pandoc_args: --webtex=http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=tx&chl=
---
$\checkmark$
The above reverts back to the old default before they moved over to CodeCogs
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/pull/3142/files
I don't know what the issue with CodeCogs is, but it may have to do with not providing a Link Back.
Solution 2:[2]
The following works. But it didn't work earlier, perhaps there was an issue with the site.
---
title: "Untitled"
author: "Stéphane Laurent"
date: "26 mars 2020"
output:
github_document:
pandoc_args: --webtex=https://latex.codecogs.com/png.latex?
---
$\checkmark$
Solution 3:[3]
Using these options worked for me:
github_document:
math_method:
engine: webtex
url: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=tx&chl=
Solution 4:[4]
It looks like there are a few answers here that use different websites for webtex. None of them worked for me today., but I googled for other sites like 'codecogs' and found one that works, so if you need one more option:
---
title: "One more Codecogs API"
output:
github_document:
pandoc_args: --webtex=http://codecogs.tomagrade.com/png.latex?
---
$\checkmark$
Sources
This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Overflow and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Source: Stack Overflow
| Solution | Source |
|---|---|
| Solution 1 | Schwarz |
| Solution 2 | Stéphane Laurent |
| Solution 3 | johannux |
| Solution 4 | David LeBauer |