Not able to use titlesec with markdown and pandoc?

This is because the default LaTeX template redefines \paragraph. To disable this behaviour, you can use the subparagraph variable in pandoc. You could supply this at the command-line: pandoc –variable subparagraph -o file.pdf file.md Or you could embed it in the document’s YAML metadata, with any non-null value: — subparagraph: yes — From man pandoc … Read more

pandoc version 1.12.3 or higher is required and was not found (R shiny)

Go into RStudio and find the system environment variable for RSTUDIO_PANDOC Sys.getenv(“RSTUDIO_PANDOC”) Then put that in your R script prior to calling the render command. Sys.setenv(RSTUDIO_PANDOC=”— insert directory here —“) This worked for me after I’d been struggling to find how rmarkdown finds pandoc. I had to check github to look at the source.