Problem creating Project

[pssguy]

Been a while but creating a new blogdown project via RStudio results in an execution error

― Creating your new site
| Installing the theme yihui/hugo-lithium from github.com
trying URL 'https://github.com/yihui/hugo-lithium/archive/master.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length unknown
downloaded 109 KB

| Adding the sample post to content/post/2020-12-01-r-rmarkdown.Rmd
| Converting all metadata to the YAML format
| Adding netlify.toml in case you want to deploy the site to Netlify
Error in write_toml(d, f) : Wrong TOML data generated by Hugo:

I'm using blogdown version 1.6.1
Creating without checking the netlify option does obviate the issue

[pssguy]

Not sure if this is related to the above issue, but when I try and build the site

> blogdown::serve_site()
Launching the server via the command:
  C:/Users/Andrew/AppData/Roaming/Hugo/0.30.2/hugo.exe server --bind 127.0.0.1 -p 4321 --themesDir themes -t hugo-lithium -D -F --navigateToChanged
Serving the directory . at http://localhost:4321
Launched the hugo server in the background (process ID: 45664). To stop it, call blogdown::stop_server() or restart the R session.

There is no message

Rendering content/post/2020-12-01-r-rmarkdown/index.Rmd... Done.
``
and nothing appears visually in the editor

There is a 2020-12-01-r-rmarkdown.html created but I have to open and preview to see the endproduct

[yihui]

I'm using blogdown version 1.6.1

Please follow the issue guide to report xfun::session_info('blogdown'). The info you provided is too little for us to help or tell anything. Thanks!

[pssguy]

Apologies

R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19042), RStudio 2021.9.1.372

Locale:
  LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252
  LC_NUMERIC=C                    LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252    

Package version:
  base64enc_0.1.3  blogdown_1.6.1   bookdown_0.24    digest_0.6.28    evaluate_0.14    fastmap_1.1.0   
  glue_1.5.0       graphics_4.1.1   grDevices_4.1.1  highr_0.9        htmltools_0.5.2  httpuv_1.6.3    
  jquerylib_0.1.4  jsonlite_1.7.2   knitr_1.36       later_1.3.0      magrittr_2.0.1   methods_4.1.1   
  mime_0.12        promises_1.2.0.1 R6_2.5.1         Rcpp_1.0.7       rlang_0.4.12     rmarkdown_2.11  
  servr_0.23       stats_4.1.1      stringi_1.7.5    stringr_1.4.0    tinytex_0.35     tools_4.1.1     
  utils_4.1.1      xfun_0.27        yaml_2.2.1      

Hugo version: 0.30.2

[yihui]

It seems that Hugo 0.30.2 has a bug (gohugoio/hugo#2458) that was fixed in a later version (not sure which).

I might be able to fix this problem in blogdown, but would like to first ask if you are unable to use a higher version of Hugo.

[pssguy]

I would not know why I would be unable to use a higher version. I'm guessing I have only ever installed Hugo as part of setting up a previous blogdown site: but that would have been some years ago.

[yihui]

Then I suggest you try a higher version of Hugo (0.30.2 is more than 4 years old now).

[pssguy]

Thanks. Just in case there are others in the same boat this did the trick

blogdown::install_hugo()

To avoid this happening again, you might want to consider an update Hugo (as well as an install Hugo) as an option on creating a project
Thanks for your swift responses

[yihui]

Just for the record, I figured out the minimal version of Hugo that can make blogdown::write_toml() work, which is v0.37.

remotes::install_github('rstudio/blogdown')
options(blogdown.hugo.version = NULL)

v1 = xfun::github_releases('gohugoio/hugo')
v2 = NULL  # failing versions
for (v in v1) {
  v3 = sub('v', '', v)
  if (as.numeric_version(v3) < '0.17') break
  blogdown::install_hugo(v)
  tryCatch(blogdown::config_netlify(NULL), error = function(e) v2 <<- c(v2, v))
  blogdown::remove_hugo(v3)
}

> v2
 [1] "v0.36.1" "v0.36"   "v0.35"   "v0.34"   "v0.33"   "v0.32.4" "v0.32.3" "v0.32.2" "v0.32.1" "v0.32"   "v0.31.1"
[12] "v0.31"   "v0.30.2" "v0.30.1" "v0.30"   "v0.29"   "v0.28"   "v0.27.1" "v0.27"   "v0.26"   "v0.25.1" "v0.25"  
[23] "v0.24.1" "v0.24"   "v0.23"   "v0.22.1" "v0.22"