Error installing hugo using blogdown::hugo_install() - r

Question

I am unable to install hugo using the blogdown package. When I run blogdown::hugo_install() I get the following message and see a pop-up window with a message that hugo is downloading. After the pop-up window appears, R / RStudio just hangs though. For reference, I have just updated R and my RStudio version is 1.2.5033. I am running Windows 10.
The latest Hugo version is 0.69.0 trying URL 'https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.69.0/hugo_extended_0.69.0_Windows-64bit.zipContent length 649 bytes
I also tried running blogdown:hugo_install(version = 0.69) . When I run that, I get a different error:
trying URL 'https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.69/hugo_extended_0.69_Windows-64bit.zip'
trying URL 'https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.69/hugo_extended_0.69_Windows-64bit.zip'
trying URL 'https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.69/hugo_extended_0.69_Windows-64bit.zip'
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 9 100 9 0 0 9 0 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0:00:01 44
Error in install_hugo_bin(exec) :
Unable to install Hugo to any of these dirs: C:\Users\dougj\AppData\Roaming/Hugo,
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In download.file(url, output, ..., method = method) :
cannot open URL 'https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.69/hugo_extended_0.69_Windows-64bit.zip': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
2: In download.file(url, output, ..., method = method) :
cannot open URL 'https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.69/hugo_extended_0.69_Windows-64bit.zip': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
3: In download.file(url, output, ..., method = method) :
cannot open URL 'https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.69/hugo_extended_0.69_Windows-64bit.zip': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
4: In utils::unzip(zipfile) : error 1 in extracting from zip file
5: In file.copy(exec, destdir, overwrite = TRUE) :
problem copying .\hugo.exe to C:\Users\dougj\AppData\Roaming\Hugo\hugo.exe: No such file or directory
Lastly, I tried installing the dev version of blogdown, downloading the hugo binary, and then manually installing using blogdown::hugo_install_bin(path_to_unzipped_binary.exe) but I get this error when I try that:
Error: 'install_hugo_bin' is not an exported object from 'namespace:blogdown'
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

The latest Hugo version is 0.69.0
trying URL 'https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.69.0/hugo_extended_0.69.0_Windows-64bit.zip'
Content length 649 bytes
According to the message above, the content length doesn't seem to be correct (should be about 13Mb). I don't know why, but you might be behind a firewall. If that's the case, you could download this zip file in your web browser, and pass the local file path of the zip file to blogdown::install_hugo(), e.g.,
# change the path below to the actual path of the zip file on your computer
blogdown::install_hugo('~/Downloads/hugo_extended_0.69.0_Windows-64bit.zip')
For the rest of your issues:
I also tried running blogdown:hugo_install(version = 0.69) . When I run that, I get a different error
That is because there is no version 0.69. There is only 0.69.0 (you can check it on the Github releases page).
Lastly, I tried installing the dev version of blogdown, downloading the hugo binary, and then manually installing using blogdown::hugo_install_bin(path_to_unzipped_binary.exe)
The function hugo_install_bin() is not exported from blogdown. You don't really need it (use install_hugo() instead).