R markdown error in evaluate_call(...) when knitting any Rmd file

Question

I can no longer knit any of my Rmd files to PDF or Html. It's the same error message every time:

Line 9 Error in evaluate_call(expr, parsed$src[[i]], envir = envir, enclos=enclos, : unused argument (include_timing = include_timing) Calls: ... call_block -> block_exec -> in_dir -> evalute -> evalute_call Execution halted

Line 9 is an auto-generated line when opening a new R markdown file:

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

I've tried deleting it, changing TRUE to FALSE, and deleting part of it. It gives me the same error message stopped on the same line.

Answer 1

If you are still receiving the same error Yihui, from the same linked answer above says to update the evaluate package. When I updated, the error stopped. I am currently running 3.3.1.

Yihui offered guidance in the knitr FAQ1 here: https://github.com/yihui/knitr/blob/master/FAQ.md

Answer 2

I had this exact problem when I tried to update knitr to version 1.13 or 1.14. I get the same error if I try to knit with an R version 3.2.x or 3.3.x. I suggest reverting to knitr version 1.12 using the below. I don't get the above error with 1.12.

packageurl <- "http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/knitr/knitr_1.12.tar.gz" install.packages(packageurl, repos=NULL, type="source")

Taken from this answer: getting a parser_all error in R when using knitr for converting a basic Rmd file into HTML. Still unsure what the issue is.