Error 83 using scholarly-metadata.lua in YAML of Rmarkdown

[katherinelauck]

I'm running Windows 10 and updated RStudio, pandoc, Rmarkdown, and the latest version of the .lua files in the following YAML.

Trying to knit a .rmd with just the following in it, and scholarly-metadata.lua and author-info-blocks.lua in its directory,

---
title: "My title"
author: 
  - Katherine Lauck:
    email: kslauck@ucdavis.edu
    institute: [davis, pi]
    correspondence: true
  - name: Sarah L. Carroll
    institute: colorado
  - name: Elly Mufliati
    institute: [untan, pi]
  - name: Sadtata Noor Adirahmanta
    institute: bksda
  - name: Novia Sagita
    institute: pi
  - name: Siti Kartikawati
    institute: [untan, pi]
  - name: Adam Miller
    institute: pi
institute:
  - davis: Graduate Group in Ecology, University of California, Davis
  - pi: Planet Indonesia
  - untan: Fakultas Kehutanan, Universitas Tanjungpura
  - bksda: Balai Konservasi Sumber Daya Alam
  - colorado: Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University
output: 
  word_document:
    pandoc_args:
      - '--lua-filter=scholarly-metadata.lua'
      - '--lua-filter=author-info-blocks.lua'
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
\```

## Abstract

blah blah 

note: delete the escape slash after the r setup block before running - sorry, I'm new to github formatting and couldn't figure out how to properly escape that triple tick without the slash remaining in the code block.

Gives me:

Error running filter scholarly-metadata.lua: [string "scholarly-metadata.lua"]:7: unexpected symbol near '<' Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 83

My interpretation of this error message is that pandoc is successfully opening and reading the .lua files but is expecting a different format. Commenting out the first filter gives the same error for the second filter.

[tarleb]

Thanks for the report! The issue seems to be caused by the first author block. Please try to either indent the lines under your name by two additional spaces

author: 
  - Katherine Lauck:
      email: kslauck@ucdavis.edu
      institute: [davis, pi]
      correspondence: true

or use name as for the other authors.

author: 
  - name: Katherine Lauck
    email: kslauck@ucdavis.edu
    institute: [davis, pi]
    correspondence: true

The error messages are certainly less than ideal, in that they fail to properly hint at possible causes for this problem. I'll take this issue as a reminder to fix this.

[katherinelauck]

Hi tarleb, thanks for your help so far! I tried both of your suggestions by copy paste to make sure I got it right and still got the same error message.

[katherinelauck]

Do you think it's a pandoc problem? Have you been able to reproduce the error message?

[jgm]

Are you sure your scholarly-metadata.lua is correct? From the error message it sounds like you might have downloaded the HTML representation of it rather than the raw. Try looking at it in a text editor.

[katherinelauck]

That is 100% what is going on. Sorry for wasting your time.

[katherinelauck]

It's gorgeous, I tell ya, gorgeous

[DS-Rodrigues]

Hi, thanks for creating this tool. I also get this error message. I am trying to use your .lua files but from GitHub it downloads automatically as .html and from what I can see, these need to be .lua, how can I get the files as .lua? I am using Mac, and I installed pandoc via brew on the terminal. Thanks

[tarleb]

Hi @DS-Rodrigues, the easiest might be to download the zip file of the latest release and to get the files from there. Alternatively, if you view the content of a file on GitHub, then there should be a button Raw somewhere to the top right. A right click and "save content" will download the raw code.

[DS-Rodrigues]

Perfect, it is working now. Thanks so much!