Can't insert plots in bookdown

Question

I'm using bookdown to generate notes for an R. A minimal bookdown example that exhibits the error:

https://github.com/DavisBrian/bookdown_error

Everything worked great until I tried to add a plot (dataviz.Rmd). When building the book I get the following error:

! LaTeX Error: File `dataviz_files/figure-latex/plotxyx-1' not found.

Error: Failed to compile rclassnotes.tex. See rclassnotes.log for more info.
In addition: Warning message:
In parse_packages(logfile, quiet = c(TRUE, FALSE, FALSE)) :
  Failed to find a package that contains dataviz_files/figure-latex/plotxyx-1
Execution halted

Exited with status 1.

I've run this under:

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] compiler_3.4.4  backports_1.1.2 bookdown_0.7    magrittr_1.5    rprojroot_1.3-2 htmltools_0.3.6 tools_3.4.4    
 [8] yaml_2.1.18     Rcpp_0.12.16    stringi_1.1.7   rmarkdown_1.9   knitr_1.20      xfun_0.1        stringr_1.3.0  
[15] digest_0.6.15   evaluate_0.10.1

Any ideas on where to go from here?

Edit:

It seems very similar to: https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown-demo/issues/3 and https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown/issues/342

Note I have this issue with both Windows and Mac OSX. I don't think it's a simple software installation error of one of the components.

The files seem to be created in _bookdown_files/dataviz_files/figure-latex/ and temporarily in _dataviz_files/figure-latex/

Yes but they seem to get delete / cleaned up. I can see them there until the error occurs. Side note if I use the RStudio knit button everything works fine. But the Build Book errors out — BrianDavisStats, Jun 02 '18 at 06:30
That's a lot of code to look at. Can you try to build a minimal example that demonstrates the issue? — Ralf Stubner, Jun 04 '18 at 08:44
@RalfStubner Updated the link at the top to a minimal bookdown example. — BrianDavisStats, Jun 04 '18 at 14:35

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 04 '18 at 17:07

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The problem was due to the fact that you set the graphical device to svg in _common.R: https://github.com/DavisBrian/bookdown_error/blob/9f4078a/_common.R#L13

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  comment = "#>",
  collapse = TRUE,
  cache = FALSE,
  out.width = "70%",
  fig.align = 'center',
  fig.width = 6,
  fig.asp = 0.618,  # 1 / phi
  fig.show = "hold",
  dev = "svg"
)

LaTeX does not support SVG images natively (at least for now). You have to either use special LaTeX packages, or use an image format that LaTeX can recognize, such as pdf or png.

answered Jun 04 '18 at 17:07

Yihui Xie

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That did the trick. Thank you for the assistance and the wonderful packages. – BrianDavisStats Jun 04 '18 at 19:11
Thank you for [providing the reproducible example](https://yihui.name/en/2017/09/the-minimal-reprex-paradox/) in the first place :) – Yihui Xie Jun 04 '18 at 21:51

Can't insert plots in bookdown

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