Can't identify "categories" on Windows because of newline characters

[christian-million]

I am running R/RStudio on a Windows 11 machine and received the following error:

> quartopost::quartopost()
Error in if (stringr::str_detect(f_list[[i]], "categories:")) { : 
  missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

I was able to trace the error back to the get_cat function in R\utils.R. Specifically, Line #139.

On Windows, when I hit [ENTER] to create a new line, it uses \r\n to create a new line, instead of \n. Googling around indicates this is common for windows machines.

The regex in Line #139 is looking for the YAML section to end with ---\n, but in my case the YAML ended with ---\r\n.

I downloaded your source repository, made the addition to the regex to include ---\\r\\n, installed the updated source package, and was able to successfully use your package.

Since I have this work-around, I don't need this issue resolved, but I thought open this issue for others and so you can consider a regex expression that is more flexible.

Excellent package as I wait for this quarto-r enhancement to be added :) Thank you!

[petzi53]

Thank you for bringing this issue to my attention. I am working on macOS, so I couldn't test it on a window machine. I will resolve the issue with the next release of quartopost. But this could take a while as I am currently busy on other projects.

Afterthought: I have the impression that the Quarto developers are planning to add your desired functionality into future releases. It seems to me generally that a function for new blog entries would be a very useful feature for many Quarto blog users.