Rmarkdown not rendering .Rmd to pdf, pandoc error 2 - r

Question

I was trying to render an Rmarkdown file to pdf using the beaverdown package and got the following error:
output file: thesis.knit.md
--chapters has been removed. Use --top-level-division=chapter instead. Try pandoc.exe --help for more information. Error: pandoc document
conversion failed with error 2 In addition: Warning message: In
has_crop_tools() : Tool(s) not installed or not in PATH: pdfcrop,
ghostcript
-> As a result, figure cropping will be disabled. Execution halted
I'm using:
Pandoc 2.11.4
MiKTeX 21.1
Session info:
R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 8.1 x64 (build 9600)
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
[6] methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] pillar_1.4.7 compiler_4.0.3
[3] prettyunits_1.1.1 remotes_2.2.0
[5] tools_4.0.3 testthat_3.0.1
[7] digest_0.6.27 pkgbuild_1.2.0
[9] pkgload_1.1.0 gtable_0.3.0
[11] tibble_3.0.6 evaluate_0.14
[13] memoise_2.0.0 lifecycle_0.2.0
[15] pkgconfig_2.0.3 rlang_0.4.10
[17] DBI_1.1.0 cli_2.3.0
[19] yaml_2.2.1 xfun_0.20
[21] fastmap_1.1.0 withr_2.4.1
[23] dplyr_1.0.4 knitr_1.31
[25] generics_0.1.0 vctrs_0.3.6
[27] desc_1.2.0 fs_1.5.0
[29] devtools_2.3.2 grid_4.0.3
[31] tidyselect_1.1.0 rprojroot_2.0.2
[33] glue_1.4.2 R6_2.5.0
[35] processx_3.4.5 rmarkdown_2.6.6
[37] bookdown_0.21.6 sessioninfo_1.1.1
[39] ggplot2_3.3.3 blob_1.2.1
[41] callr_3.5.1 purrr_0.3.4
[43] magrittr_2.0.1 scales_1.1.1
[45] ps_1.5.0 ellipsis_0.3.1
[47] htmltools_0.5.1.1 usethis_2.0.0
[49] assertthat_0.2.1 colorspace_2.0-0
[51] tinytex_0.29 munsell_0.5.0
[53] cachem_1.0.3 beaverdown_0.2.1
[55] crayon_1.4.0
I haven't done anything besides rendering the template. Could this have anything to do with my current version of pandoc?
Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.