R Markdown (2.5 required but 2.3 available)

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I just updated RStudio to version 1.4.1103. Now when I create an R Markdown document, I get the message "Required package version could not be found. rmarkdown 2.5 is required but 2.3 is available. " How do I get 2.5 version loaded in R Studio? I don't see any updates for 2.5 and when I install packages "rmarkdown", I get 2.3. Help!!

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Latest version on CRAN is 2.6, What is the complete ouput message you get when you try to install?

install.packages("rmarkdown")
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The message is "check that get Option (repos) refers to a cran repository that contains the needed package. "

In R Studio, under options, Primary CRAN repository is set to "Global (CDN) - RStudio."

Greatly appreciate some help. I cant knit any of my rmarkdown documents.

Thank you!!

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We need more specific information, please copy and paste the actual output message

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Rmarkdown
Rmarkdown1090×499 22.9 KB

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That is not what I meant, run this command and post the output you get, otherwise I don't have enough information to help you.

install.packages("rmarkdown")
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 install.packages("rmarkdown")
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:

https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/royam/OneDrive/Desktop/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://mran.microsoft.com/snapshot/2020-07-16/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/rmarkdown_2.3.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 3631872 bytes (3.5 MB)
downloaded 3.5 MB

package ‘rmarkdown’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
	C:\Users\royam\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsDhPPe\downloaded_packages
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Logging off. I'll check tomorrow morning for your reply. Thank you!!!

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The repository you are using is an MRAN snapshot from July 2020, that is why you get an older version, you have to change that, unfortunately I have never used Microsoft R so I don't know what other options you have available.

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Thank you for your note and quick responses. All is well. I downloaded R from Cran and I'm up and running with rmarkdown again. Greatly appreciated. Great customer service!!!

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Just to clarify, this is a community forum where users help each other, not customer support.

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