Markdown update not recognized (Cannot render)

[jliu]

I can't knit any Rmd files (which were knitting just fine yesterday).

Whenever I knit, I was prompted that "Rendering R Markdown documents requires an updated version of the markdown package."

I have updated the markdown packages over and over, with different options provided online, such as switching to different CRAN mirror, install.packages("markdown", repos = "https://cran.revolutionanalytics.com")

or using devtools::install_github("rstudio/markdown")

Nothing works. Suggestions?

[andresrcs]

Are you sure that is asking you for markdown and not rmarkdown? The latest is the current version.

[jliu]

Yep. It's asking for markdown. I updated both rmarkdown, markdown, and knitr, just in case....

[andresrcs]

This is weird indeed, is throwing some error message or just isn't rendering?

Some system Information could be useful as well

#### System Information:
- RStudio Edition: (Desktop or Server)
- RStudio Version: 
- OS Version: 
- R Version: 

#### Also:
<!-- Depending on your issue, the following may be useful /-->
<!-- If a section isn't relevant or you can't collect it just delete that section below /-->
- RStudio diagnostics report: <!--see rstd.io/support-diagnostics-report /-->
- Your `sessionInfo()`:
- RStudio crash report: <!-- rstd.io/support-crash-report /-->
- RStudio application log files: <!-- rstd.io/support-ide-log-files /-->