Download the appropriate Hugo executable for your platform from Github and
try to copy it to a system directory so blogdown can run the
hugo command to build a site. update_hugo() is a wrapper of
install_hugo(force = TRUE).
install_hugo(version = "latest", use_brew = Sys.which("brew") != "", force = FALSE)update_hugo()
The Hugo version number, e.g., 0.19; the special value
latest means the latest version (fetched from Github releases).
Whether to use Homebrew (https://brew.sh) on macOS to
install Hugo (recommended if you have already installed Homebrew). Note
Homebrew will be automatically installed if it has not been installed when
use_brew = TRUE.
Whether to install Hugo even if it has already been installed.
This may be useful when upgrading Hugo (if you use Homebrew, run the
command brew update && brew upgrade instead).
This function tries to install Hugo to Sys.getenv('APPDATA') on
Windows, ~/Library/Application Support on macOS, and ~/bin/ on
other platforms (such as Linux). If these directories are not writable, the
package directory Hugo of blogdown will be used. If it still
fails, you have to install Hugo by yourself and make sure it can be found via
the environment variable PATH.
This is just a helper function and may fail to choose the correct Hugo executable for your operating system, especially if you are not on Windows or Mac or a major Linux distribution. When in doubt, read the Hugo documentation and install it by yourself: https://gohugo.io.