Cannot download markdown file in Shiny when running batch file

Currently I have this simple R shiny app, to run it I open up RStudio and execute

library(shiny)
    
ui <- fluidPage(
  # input - your name
    textInput("name", "What's your name?"), 
  # show name 
    textOutput("greeting"),
    hr(),
  # create reprot
    downloadButton("CreateReport", 
                   "Create report"),
)

server <- function(input, output, session) { 

  output$greeting <- renderText(paste0("Hello ", input$name, "!"))
  
  output$CreateReport <- downloadHandler(
    # For PDF output, change this to "report.pdf"
    filename = "Report.html",
    content = function(file) {
      # Copy the report file to a temporary directory before processing it, in
      # case we don't have write permissions to the current working dir (which
      # can happen when deployed).
      tempReport <- file.path(getwd(), "Report.Rmd")
      file.copy("ReportC.Rmd", tempReport, overwrite = TRUE)
      
      # Set up parameters to pass to Rmd document
      params <- list(
        name  = input$name
      )
    
      # create report
      rmarkdown::render(tempReport, 
                        output_file = file,
                        params = params,
                        envir = new.env(parent = globalenv())
      )
    }
  )

}

# Run the application 
shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)

the Rmd file look like this

---
title: "Simple rest report "
author: ""
date: ""
output: html_document
params:
  name: ""

---

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

Hello r params$name


This code works perfect when i run it from Rstudio. When i run the code from a batch file it gives a an error: server problem

The bat file has the following content:

"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.6.2\bin\R.exe" -e "shiny::runApp('app.R', launch.browser = TRUE)"

pause


The bat is is the same folder at the shiny app. The error showing at the download in the download pane in Chrome:

Failed - Serverproblem


I have been looking at at the web for similar cases on how to run Rshiny with rmarkdown , without luck. Please help.

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