New to Rmarkdown (and markdown in general). I've inherited some code that works great for the html_document output format but not for pdf_document. It seems to get stuck on the knitr asis_output function in the .Rmd script. When I comment out chunks containing that function, it writes to pdf no problem. Here's some troubleshooting I've tried:
xfun::session_info('rmarkdown')
R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.1, RStudio 1.2.1335
Random number generation:
RNG: Mersenne-Twister
Normal: Inversion
Sample: Rounding
Locale: en_CA.UTF-8 / en_CA.UTF-8 / en_CA.UTF-8 / C / en_CA.UTF-8 / en_CA.UTF-8
:Package version:
base64enc_0.1.3 digest_0.6.20 evaluate_0.14 glue_1.3.1 graphics_3.6.1 grDevices_3.6.1 highr_0.8
htmltools_0.4.0 jsonlite_1.6 knitr_1.25 magrittr_1.5 markdown_1.1 methods_3.6.1 mime_0.7
Rcpp_1.0.2 rlang_0.4.0 rmarkdown_1.16 stats_3.6.1 stringi_1.4.3 stringr_1.4.0 tinytex_0.17.1
tools_3.6.1 utils_3.6.1 xfun_0.10 yaml_2.2.0
Pandoc version: 2.7.3
Sys.getenv('PATH')
[1] "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/opt/X11/bin"
tinytex::tinytex_root()
[1] "/usr/local/texlive/2019"
(tinytex::tlmgr_path())
tlmgr path add add_link_dir_dir: /usr/local/share/info/dir exists;
not making symlink. add_link_dir_dir: destination
/usr/local/share/man/man5 not writable, no links from
/usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/doc/man/man5.tlmgr: An error has
occurred. See above messages. Exiting. add of symlinks had 1
error(s), see messages above.[1] 6
So maybe the problem is a path issue? In which case I have no clue how to fix. Or should I be using an alternative to the asis_output function? Any help is much appreciated. Here's the relevant bits of my code:
In the R script:
id <- 44
rmarkdown::render('mymarkdown.Rmd',
output_format = "pdf_document",
output_file = paste("report_", id,".pdf", sep=''),
output_dir = '/Users/myname/Documents/test')
In the Rmd file:
---
title: "Monitoring Activity Summary Report"
mode: selfcontained
date: "November 2019"
output:
pdf_document: default
html_document: default
self_contained: yes
---
[some code chunks...]
[then these code chunks that get stuck only for "pdf_document"...]
``` {r setup_Samp1a, echo=FALSE}
sampling_1 <- !is.na(sampling_unique[1])```
```{r conditional block, eval = sampling_1}
asis_output("### 3.1 Sampling 1\\n") # Header that is only shown if
sampling_1 == TRUE```
The error message
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> 3.1 Sampling 1\n
Error: Failed to compile /Users/myname/Documents/test/report_44.tex.
See https://yihui.name/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See
report_44.log for more info.
