pandoc document conversion failed with error 43 : pdflatex: The memory dump file could not be found

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RStudio : 0.98.994 OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, 64-bit Service Pack 1 MiKTeX: 2.9.4503

Hi,

I get the following error when I try to knit a PDF document.

pandoc.exe: Error producing PDF from TeX source. This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (MiKTeX 2.9) pdflatex: The memory dump file could not be found. pdflatex: Data: pdflatex.fmt

user1464473 · Answer 1 · 2015-04-25T14:37:19.113

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I also tried devtools::install_github('rstudio/rmarkdown') but was still getting an error when I added 'fig.align='center' to a ggplot2 plot in my document. It would work as HTML, but not as PDF.

After seeing isomorphismes's post I clicked on the gear symbol next to the knit PDF button, then under the advanced tab I changed the LaTeX Engine to xelatex. After that I no longer received the error message and my PDF document was created without problems.

Thank you.

edited Apr 25 '15 at 14:37

answered Apr 25 '15 at 14:31

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Changing the LaTeX Engine to xelatex worked for me when the error was being caused by a figure alignment chunk option. – BazookaDave Sep 24 '15 at 13:52
I had the same problem and changed the engine to **lualatex** using **xelatex** resulted in an error about the missing *fontconfig* file. – Konrad Jan 11 '16 at 14:46

score 24 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 23 '17 at 21:39

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I found the answer here: http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/tufte_handout_format.html#comment-1582377678

The problem is that you need to add \usepackage[utf8]{inputnc} to the preamble of the tufte-handout.tex file in the rmarkdown package.

This was fixed here: https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/commit/484d5b8e903e0e0c75c82f707efa35f9fd9a52b0

To update your rmarkdown package, you can use directly in the RStudio command line

devtools::install_github("rstudio/rmarkdown")

edited Apr 23 '17 at 21:39

MichaelChirico

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answered Oct 16 '14 at 20:35

David LeBauer

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Thank you so much, a full service solution which worked for me. – Sam Swift Oct 29 '14 at 18:38
This really helped me. All I did was to run the code devtools::install_github("rstudio/rmarkdown"). And now it works. Thank you! :D – Developer Oct 26 '15 at 07:14

score 11 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 27 '16 at 17:37

None of the above worked for me when knitting to PDF (and I wanted to keep the scientific notation). The problem was that latex code was generated that included "\times" without the necessary bracketing by $. In the markdown I simply bracketed the inline R code with $'s, like so:

$p = `r signif(cor.HF$p.value, 2)`$

Voila!

score 8 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 21 '17 at 09:12

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happy to share with you my solution.

---
title: "Untitled"
author: "-----"
date: "21/6/2017"
output: 
  pdf_document: 
    latex_engine: xelatex
---

edited Jun 21 '17 at 09:12

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answered Jun 21 '17 at 08:53

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while the other solutions didn't work for me, this did – Joshua Rosenberg Jun 27 '17 at 16:17

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 14 '15 at 02:48

I was able to fix it in my case. I experienced that error when generate PDF from Rmd if I added float values into a text that R tried to display as a scientific notation. For example, instead of "520274.72" it tried to add text "5.2027472 e10-5" which leads to latex code \textbf{5.2027472\times 10\^{}{5}} that was not compiling. I fixed it by wrapping it with format(....,scientific=FALSE).

replace r round(txn_pd,2)

with r format(round(txn_pd,2),scientific=FALSE)

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 02 '15 at 05:21

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I had the same problem and devtools::install_github('rstudio/rmarkdown') didn't work for me. I needed to

rmarkdown::render('in.md',

      output_format=pdf_document(latex_engine='xelatex')

      )

with the novel command (use xelatex) on its own line.

answered Mar 02 '15 at 05:21

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score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 19 '18 at 21:42

I encountered this problem while I was trying to add an in-line r code r test1$p.value, which is a very small p-value from t test. The error information is as following:

> ! Missing $ inserted.  
>  <inserted text>  
>            $  
>l.147   9.0044314\times  
>
>pandoc: Error producing PDF
>Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 43
>Execution halted

I think the problem is the pdflatex engine has a trouble in displaying the small p-value in exponential notation. I solved the problem by clicking on the gear symbol next to the knit button, then under output options, advanced tab I changed the LaTeX Engine to lualatex, or you can just report the p-value as p < 0.001.

score 1 · Answer 8 · edited Apr 09 '17 at 05:43

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If you are using inline values from your R code which are in the scientific format (too small or too big), format them like:

replace r x

with r format(x, digits=n) where n is whatever.

edited Apr 09 '17 at 05:43

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score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Feb 10 '18 at 05:37

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for me it was because on my headers I was putting + signs. For example gene + treatment. This errors but when I removed it, it works.

answered Feb 10 '18 at 05:37

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Mar 21 '17 at 12:25

In my case it was solved simply by editing the author field in:

---
title: "Document Title"
author: '-----'
date: "21-03-2017"
output: pdf_document
---

the default '-----' would yield the error, but replacing it with anything (for example 'Juan') solved the issue.

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Sep 14 '17 at 20:07

I just ran into this problem and already solved it. I didn't use any code as other people did in their posts. I will assume that you have installed all these basic stuff: R, RStudio, the rmarkdown package, the knitr package, and the MikTex basic installation (I know this is very basic, but I want those first timers know that you need these stuff to make this happen). If you run into this problem, go to R GUI, upgrade the rmarkdown package and it should work then. Note that if you change the LaTeX Engine to xelatex as the poster of the highest vote did, it may not work for you, at least it did not for me. I leave my latex engine as it is (pdflatex).

score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Oct 02 '17 at 16:13

I had a similar issue. My solution was to remove the "leading" period in the YAML title argument:

Does not work:

---  
title: “1. Title”  
output: pdf_document  
---

output file: example.knit.md

! Argument of \reserved@a has an extra }. \par l.79 \end{enumerate}}

pandoc: Error producing PDF Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 43 Execution halted

Works:

---
title: “1 Title”
output: pdf_document
---

score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Oct 12 '17 at 11:33

I did try to use the xelatex engine but still, I got the error that xetex.def is not found. This is another to work around.

output:
  pdf_document: 
    keep_tex: yes
    latex_engine: xelatex

Then open .tex file in your TEX editor and build pdf as usual.

score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Apr 26 '19 at 15:48

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I faced a similar issue. In my case, the error occurred because of putting a percentage inside the $ sign. Like this,

$95%$, I removed the % sign, and everything worked fine.

answered Apr 26 '19 at 15:48

Matthew

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pandoc document conversion failed with error 43 : pdflatex: The memory dump file could not be found

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