Knit to pdf doesn't work when using Kable

Question

I'm using rmarkdown in rstudio and want to knit to pdf. This works well, except for when I use kable. I'm using the following yaml and it used to work in the past, but now I had to reinstall R, Rstudio and MacTex and now it doesn't work anymore.

---
title: "example"
output:
  pdf_document:
    df_print: kable
    latex_engine: xelatex
---

```{r}
cars
```

The error message I get is:

output file: example.knit.md

! LaTeX Error: Environment kable-table undefined.

Error: LaTeX failed to compile example.tex. See https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See Study-1.log for more info.

Does anyone know how to solve this?

Answer 1

This is a bug of rmarkdown (against higher versions of Pandoc), which I just fixed on Github. Please try:

remotes::install_github('rstudio/rmarkdown')