I love flextable and so I use it in a lot of projects. After setup of a new Laptop where I installed R 4.4.1 and RStudio 2024.04.2 I had to see that the flextable library (0.9.6) produces an error when it is attached in a quarto document (.qmd) but there is no problem when it is attached in a RMarkdown document (.Rmd).
The error occurs immediately after klicking the render button auf a .qmd file and looks like this:
*Quitting from lines 9-13 [setup] (flextable_test.qmd)
Error:
! package or namespace load failed for ‘flextable’:
.onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for ‘shiny’, details:
call: .make_numeric_version(x, strict, .standard_regexps()$valid_numeric_version)
error: invalid non-character version specification ‘x’ (type: double)
Backtrace:
- base::library(flextable)
- base::tryCatch(…)
- base (local) tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
- base (local) tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
- value[3L]*
To reproduce that error it is only necessary to
- create a new quarto document,
- include
library(flextable), - save the file in a directory ‘project/src’ and
- render it.
To solve that error I tried to deinstall and install flextable again but that did not help.
Can anyone explain to me what that error message means exactly?