Unclear build instructions and tmuxr failure

[gl-yziquel]

Hi.

I've been trying to build the book from source on ubuntu.

The documentation is rather unclear as to how this book should be built.

After some dependency hunting, I am now hitting the following wall, which seems to be linked to tmuxr behaviour:

mini-me@virtucon ~/h/c/d/b/2e (master)> Rscript --vanilla -e 'bookdown::render_book("index.Rmd", encoding = "UTF-8", clean = FALSE)'
processing file: index.Rmd
output file: index.knit.md
processing file: foreword.Rmd
output file: foreword.knit.md
processing file: preface.Rmd
output file: preface.knit.md
processing file: 01.Rmd
  |.......                                             |  13% [console_start]  
Quitting from lines 6-7 [console_start] (01.Rmd)
Error:
! tmux: can't find pane: %405
Backtrace:
  1. global console_start()
  2. knitractive::start(...)
  3. engine$start()
  4. rexpect::expect_prompt(self$session)
  5. rexpect::ends_with_prompt(session)
  8. rexpect::read_last_line(session)
  9. tmuxr::capture_pane(session, start = n, end = n)
 10. tmuxr::tmux_command("capture-pane", flags)
Execution halted
Error in Rscript_render(f, render_args, render_meta, add1, add2) : 
  Failed to compile 01.Rmd
Calls: <Anonymous> -> render_new_session -> Rscript_render
Execution halted
mini-me@virtucon ~/h/c/d/b/2e (master) [1]> 

Is this behaviour potentially linked to the fact that I am already using tmux for my daily work ? (I've been building this OUT of tmux, but with another tmux running along, which is necessary for my current work, and which I cannot kill; when building INSIDE tmux, the command above kills the pane in which it is being executed, which is unfortunate.)

[kurokirasama]

I'm getting this error:

processing file: index.Rmd

output file: index.knit.md

processing file: foreword.Rmd

output file: foreword.knit.md

processing file: preface.Rmd

output file: preface.knit.md

processing file: 01.Rmd
  |.......                                             |  13% [console_start]  Error:
! ! Native call to `processx_exec` failed
Caused by error in `chain_call(c_processx_exec, command, c(command, args), pty, pty_options, …`:
! cannot start processx process 'tmux' (system error 2, No such file or directory) @unix/processx.c:611 (processx_exec)
Backtrace:
  1. global console_start()
 14. base::.handleSimpleError(...)
 15. h(simpleError(msg, call))
 16. throw_error(err, parent = e)

Quitting from lines 6-7 [console_start] (01.Rmd)

Execution halted
Error in `process_initialize(self, private, command, args, stdin, stdout, …`:
! Native call to `processx_exec` failed
Caused by error in `chain_call(c_processx_exec, command, c(command, args), pty, pty_options, …`:
! cannot start processx process 'tmux' (system error 2, No such file or directory) @unix/processx.c:611 (processx_exec)
---
Backtrace:
 1. base::(function (e) …
 2. .subset2(e, "finalize")()
 3. self$stop()
 4. rexpect::exit(self$session)
 5. tmuxr::kill_pane(session$pane)
 6. tmuxr::tmux_command("kill-pane", flags)
 7. processx::run(getOption("tmux_binary", "tmux"), args = c(tmux_options, …
 8. process$new(command, args, echo_cmd = echo_cmd, wd = wd, windows_verbatim_args = windows_verb…
 9. local initialize(...)
10. processx:::process_initialize(self, private, command, args, stdin, stdout, …
11. processx:::chain_call(c_processx_exec, command, c(command, args), pty, pty_options, …
12. | base::withCallingHandlers(do.call(".Call", list(.NAME, ...)), error = function(e) { …
13. | base::do.call(".Call", list(.NAME, ...))
14. | base::.handleSimpleError(function (e) …
15. | local h(simpleError(msg, call))
16. | processx:::throw_error(err, parent = e)
Error in Rscript_render(f, render_args, render_meta, add1, add2) : 
  Failed to compile 01.Rmd
Calls: <Anonymous> -> render_new_session -> Rscript_render
Execution halted

[cameronj86]

FYI: If you just want to create the ePub without the interactive command-line elements, you can modify the Rmd files to skip those parts. (It was getting a little in the weeds for me installing tmux into my Rstudio docker container lol):

# Backup first
cp -r . ../book_backup

# Comment out the console blocks
sed -i '/^```{r console_start/,/^```$/s/^/# /' *.Rmd
sed -i '/^```{console setup_history/,/^```$/s/^/# /' *.Rmd
# (Assistance from Claude AI)

Hopefully it doesn't detract too much from the overall experience of the book