Throw error in pandoc_convert() when pandoc isn't available (#2600)

Co-authored-by: Christophe Dervieux <[email protected]>

Author: brianperdomo

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: rmarkdown
 Title: Dynamic Documents for R
-Version: 2.29.1
+Version: 2.29.2
 Authors@R: c(
     person("JJ", "Allaire", , "[email protected]", role = "aut"),
     person("Yihui", "Xie", , "[email protected]", role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0645-5666")),

NEWS.md

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 rmarkdown 2.30
 ================================================================================
 
+- `pandoc_convert()` will throw an error if Pandoc is not available (thanks, @brianperdomo, #2600).
+
 
 rmarkdown 2.29
 ================================================================================

R/pandoc.R

@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ pandoc_convert <- function(input,
                            verbose = FALSE,
                            wd = NULL) {
 
-  # ensure we've scanned for pandoc
-  find_pandoc()
+  # ensure pandoc is available
+  pandoc_available(error = TRUE)
 
   # evaluate path arguments before changing working directory
   force(output)