How to specify a global path to pandoc in R rmarkdown

Question

I am using R rmarkdown package to render .Rmd file to the html output. This package is using pandoc to convert .md file to html as I've understood. Under my CentOS machine with version as below

CentOS Linux release 7.0.1406 (Core) 
NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="7 (Core)"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="7"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 7 (Core)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:7"
HOME_URL="https://www.centos.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.centos.org/"

CentOS Linux release 7.0.1406 (Core) 
CentOS Linux release 7.0.1406 (Core) 
cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

I have a pandoc with a version

-bash-4.2$ pandoc --version
pandoc 1.12.4.2

But when I run rmarkdown::render() function I receive such an error

Error: pandoc version 1.12.3 or higher is required and was not found.
Execution halted

I think R is using it's local pandoc which looks like it's older that my global pandoc. Does anyone know how to specify a global path to the global pandoc in R rmarkdown ?

Check this [one](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28432607/pandoc-version-1-12-3-or-higher-is-required-and-was-not-found-r-shiny) or this [one](https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2014-August/421215.html). — langusta, Oct 09 '15 at 11:25
As @langusta suggested, I used this answer and it worked http://stackoverflow.com/a/29710643/3857701 . — Marcin, Oct 09 '15 at 11:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 31 '18 at 15:00

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As @langusta suggested, I used this answer and it worked: pandoc version 1.12.3 or higher is required and was not found (R shiny)

edited Jan 31 '18 at 15:00

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answered Oct 09 '15 at 11:43

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How to specify a global path to pandoc in R rmarkdown

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