failed to make tables by "table1" and "gtsummary" packages in quarto book project

[zawkzaw]

Bug description

When I created a Quarto book in "docx" format with a chapter with codes from "table1" and "gtsummary" packages to construct summary tables, I failed to make it and saw the following error messages.

Error in flextable_to_rmd(x, bookdown = is_bookdown, pandoc2 = pandoc2, :
pandoc version >= 2.0 required for flextable rendering in docx
Calls: .main ... knit_print -> knit_print.flextable -> flextable_to_rmd
Execution halted

But when I created, using Rmd file, not qmd file as in quarto book, a separate word document with codes from "table1" and "gtsummary" packages to construct summary tables, I make it successfully.

How can I solve the problem in quarto qmd system?

Thanks

Ko Ko Zaw

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[cderv]

With the information you provided, it could come from gtsummary or flextable package not supporting correctly being run inside Quarto instead of rmarkdown. The error you get means Pandoc version is not correctly detected and make flextable error.

To check that further, we need a reproducible example. Can you share a one ? thanks

[zawkzaw]

Thank you for your response. Fortunately, I was able to produce "gtsummary" and "table1" tables in docx file by quarto book project after I have reinstalled a recent quarto version 0.9.653.

Best wishes

[cderv]

Good to know ! Thanks for the update