In change 360895, we added pandoc to list of installed packages so that we could render R Markdown reports to pdf/html on stat1002. Unfortunately, it seems the installed version is 1.12.2.1 (very outdated, from 2013) but the rmarkdown package requires pandoc >= 1.12.3 to render documents.
Could someone please upload a more recent version of pandoc to WMF's repo?
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T157807 Reinstall Analytics Hadoop Cluster with Debian Jessie | |||
| Declined | Ottomata | T159392 Update jq to v1.4.0 or higher | |||
| Resolved | Ottomata | T152712 Replacement of stat1002 and stat1003 | |||
| Resolved | Ottomata | T168683 Upgrade pandoc package to at least 1.12.3 |
pandoc 1.12.4 is already available in Debian Jessie, maybe it is time to migrate discovery dashboards to Jessie?
The blocker on movign to Jessie was the availability of shiny-server. I opened T168967 to track that part. We'll see if it is easier to provide a newer version of pandoc on Trusty or to provide shiny-server for Jessie.
This is for stat100* nodes (that use https://github.com/wikimedia/puppet/tree/production/modules/statistics)
@Gehel: we had a similar issue with R where the version in the repo was outdated by like 7 years and Oliver and I couldn't do a lot of things we wanted/needed to do. But then a year and a half ago @yuvipanda heard us complaining about how outdated R was on the analytics machines and just uploaded the latest version (at the time) and it was THE BEST. I'm hoping you or @Ottomata could do the same with pandoc :D