Download output file in published Rmarkdown document

[CameronB]

I am trying to follow the guide linked below for downloading output files from an R Markdown document which is published to RStudio Connect. I can't seem to get my minimal example to work on my institution's internal RStudio Connect. What should I be doing differently?

http://docs.rstudio.com/connect/user/r-markdown.html#r-markdown-output-files

Here is my test document.

---
title: "Test Output File"
output: "html_document"
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
fn = 'data.csv'
rmarkdown::output_metadata$set(rsc_output_files = list(fn))
d = data.frame(a=1,b=2)
write.csv(d,file=fn)
```
[`r fn`](`r fn`)

[aron]

Your R Markdown document correctly produces a data.csv and that is made available in the same output directory as the rendered HTML. I took your Rmd, deployed to one our development servers, and can get the CSV file by visiting the link.

Could you confirm your version of the rmarkdown package with packageVersion("rmarkdown") - at least 1.8.6 is required.

Also look at the version of RStudio Connect - output file support was added with version 1.6.4. http://docs.rstudio.com/connect/news/#rstudio-connect-1.6.4

I'm guessing that you are trying to deploy to an older Connect version - an old rmarkdown would err on the output_metadata reference.

Please let us know if you continue to have trouble producing output files.

[CameronB]

You were absolutely right. My rmarkdown was up to date, but our RStudio Connect was not. After my sys admin updated, my example works. Thanks!