blogdown: 'system3' is not an exported object from 'namespace:xfun' - r

Question

On Windows 10, I am getting the following error with blogdown::new_site() function:
Hugo has been installed to "C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\Hugo\0.89.4".
You are recommended to set options(blogdown.hugo.version = "0.89.4")
in the .Rprofile file in your website project. See the blogdown book
for more info on .Rprofile:
https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/global-options.html
Error: 'system3' is not an exported object from 'namespace:xfun'
I'm wondering what am I missing here? Any hints.
sessionInfo()
R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19042)
Matrix products: default
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] xfun_0.28
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.1.2 tools_4.1.2 blogdown_1.6.5 pacman_0.5.1

Answer 1

I don't know how you managed to install the dev version of blogdown without installing the dev version of xfun at the same time, since the latter is required (as specified in DESCRIPTION). Per installation instruction in README, this is how you install the dev version of blogdown:
remotes::install_github('rstudio/blogdown')
And the dev version of xfun should be installed automatically (note that you will need RTools).

Answer 2

FYI I get the exact same error trying to following the TL;DR section of this blog and that is after explicitly updating the xfun package. Here is the entire code segment I am trying to run:
remotes::install_github("rstudio/blogdown")
usethis::create_project()
blogdown::new_site(theme = "wowchemy/starter-academic")
and here is the error I am getting:
09:14:26 > blogdown::new_site(theme = "wowchemy/starter-academic")
― Creating your new site
| Installing Hugo
The latest Hugo version is v0.90.1
trying URL 'https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.90.1/hugo_extended_0.90.1_macOS-ARM64.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 16102460 bytes (15.4 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 15.4 MB
Hugo has been installed to "/Users/rogerbos/Library/Application Support/Hugo/0.90.1".
Error: 'system3' is not an exported object from 'namespace:xfun'
09:14:26 >
and here is my sessionInfo():
9:14:26 > sessionInfo()
R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Monterey 12.0.1
Matrix products: default
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] datasets utils stats graphics grDevices methods base
other attached packages:
[1] alphavantager_0.1.2 googlesheets4_1.0.0 googledrive_2.0.0
[4] clipr_0.7.1 jsonlite_1.7.2 stringi_1.7.6
[7] dtplyr_1.1.0 data.table_1.14.2 dplyr_1.0.7
[10] plyr_1.8.6 testthat_3.1.0 lubridate_1.8.0
[13] timeDate_3043.102 sendmailR_1.2-1 rmarkdown_2.11
[16] devtools_2.4.2 usethis_2.1.3 xts_0.12.1
[19] zoo_1.8-9 MASS_7.3-54 fortunes_1.5-4
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.7 lattice_0.20-45 prettyunits_1.1.1
[4] ps_1.6.0 assertthat_0.2.1 rprojroot_2.0.2
[7] digest_0.6.29 utf8_1.2.2 R6_2.5.1
[10] cellranger_1.1.0 evaluate_0.14 blogdown_1.6.5
[13] httr_1.4.2 pillar_1.6.4 rlang_0.4.12
[16] curl_4.3.2 rstudioapi_0.13 callr_3.7.0
[19] desc_1.4.0 compiler_4.1.2 xfun_0.28
[22] pkgconfig_2.0.3 askpass_1.1 base64enc_0.1-3
[25] pkgbuild_1.2.0 htmltools_0.5.2 openssl_1.4.5
[28] tidyselect_1.1.1 tibble_3.1.5 bookdown_0.24
[31] fansi_0.5.0 crayon_1.4.2 withr_2.4.2
[34] rappdirs_0.3.3 grid_4.1.2 lifecycle_1.0.1
[37] DBI_1.1.1 magrittr_2.0.1 cli_3.1.0
[40] cachem_1.0.6 fs_1.5.0 remotes_2.4.1
[43] ellipsis_0.3.2 vctrs_0.3.8 generics_0.1.1
[46] tools_4.1.2 glue_1.5.1 purrr_0.3.4
[49] processx_3.5.2 pkgload_1.2.3 fastmap_1.1.0
[52] gargle_1.2.0 sessioninfo_1.2.1 memoise_2.0.0
[55] knitr_1.36