diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 5d81e25..57ee7bd 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Bug fixes
 * Provide default CRAN mirror if missing in install_load_cran_packages(), e.g., in a child R session during knitting. Fixes 'trying to use CRAN without setting a mirror' error (#218)
 * Update template.tex so that flextable package can be used to create tables in PDF documents (#226)
 * Clean up invalid ORCID placeholder generated by usethis 3.0.0 that threw error on R version 4.5.x (#248)
+* Fix error when running skeleton.Rmd file interactively (#249)
 * Include pdata object name and data package name in visc_load_pdata() error message (#252)
 
 Other improvements
diff --git a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/visc_empty/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/visc_empty/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
index b1cd370..aed0db2 100644
--- a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/visc_empty/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
+++ b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/visc_empty/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ opts_chunk$set(cache = FALSE,
                out.extra = "",
                fig.pos = "H")
 # fig.align argument is not supported in Word (align in template docx)
-if (knitr::opts_knit$get('rmarkdown.pandoc.to') == 'latex'){
+if (get_output_type() == 'latex'){
   opts_chunk$set(fig.align = "center")
 }
 
diff --git a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/visc_report/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/visc_report/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
index 13f5ba0..4d6a10f 100644
--- a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/visc_report/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
+++ b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/visc_report/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ opts_chunk$set(cache = FALSE,
                out.extra = "",
                fig.pos = "H")
 # fig.align argument is not supported in Word (align in template docx)
-if (knitr::opts_knit$get('rmarkdown.pandoc.to') == 'latex'){
+if (get_output_type() == 'latex'){
   opts_chunk$set(fig.align = "center")
 }