Creating book demo error

[FelipeCarrillo]

Hi; I have followed step by step instructions from the bookdown page but I still am getting the error below. I downloaded the github files to my desktop and under rstudio options selected knitr and xelatex.

Output created: _book/bookdown-demo.pdf Error in tools::file_path_as_absolute(output_file) : file '_book/bookdown-demo.pdf' does not exist Calls: ... render_book -> render_cur_session -> -> In addition: Warning messages: 1: running command '"xelatex" -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode "bookdown-demo.tex"' had status 1 2: running command '"xelatex" -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode "bookdown-demo.tex"' had status 1 3: running command '"xelatex" -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode "bookdown-demo.tex"' had status 1 Execution halted

[yihui]

Please provide the following info:

devtools::session_info('bookdown')
system2('xelatex', '--version')

There should be a log file named bookdown-demo.log, and it is also helpful for me to take a look at it.

[FelipeCarrillo]

devtools::session_info('bookdown') Session info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ setting value
version R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31) system i386, mingw32
ui RStudio (1.0.136)
language (EN)
collate English_United States.1252
tz America/Los_Angeles
date 2016-12-03

Packages ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- package * version date source
backports 1.0.4 2016-10-24 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
base64enc 0.1-3 2015-07-28 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
bitops 1.0-6 2013-08-17 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
bookdown 0.3.1 2016-12-03 Github (rstudio/bookdown@a18d429) caTools 1.17.1 2014-09-10 CRAN (R 3.3.1)
digest 0.6.10 2016-08-02 CRAN (R 3.3.1)
evaluate 0.10 2016-10-11 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
highr 0.6 2016-05-09 CRAN (R 3.3.1)
htmltools 0.3.5 2016-03-21 CRAN (R 3.3.1)
jsonlite 1.1 2016-09-14 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
knitr 1.15.1 2016-11-22 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
magrittr 1.5 2014-11-22 CRAN (R 3.3.1)
markdown 0.7.7 2015-04-22 CRAN (R 3.3.1)
mime 0.5 2016-07-07 CRAN (R 3.3.1)
Rcpp 0.12.8 2016-11-17 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
rmarkdown 1.2 2016-11-21 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
rprojroot 1.1 2016-10-29 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
stringi 1.1.2 2016-10-01 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
stringr 1.1.0 2016-08-19 CRAN (R 3.3.1)
yaml 2.1.14 2016-11-12 CRAN (R 3.3.2)

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system2('xelatex', '--version') MiKTeX-XeTeX 2.9.6050 (0.99996) (MiKTeX 2.9) (C) 1994-2008 by SIL International, (C) 2009-2012 by Jonathan Kew, (C) 2010-2012 by Han Han The Thanh, (C) 2012-2013 by Khaled Hosny TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society. compiled with zlib version 1.2.8; using 1.2.8 compiled with libpng version 1.6.24; using 1.6.24 compiled with poppler version 0.46.0 compiled with jpeg version 8.4 compiled with fontconfig version 2.12; using 2.12 compiled with FreeType2 version 2.6.5; using 2.6.5 compiled with Graphite2 version 1.3.8; using 1.3.8 compiled with ICU version 57.1; using 57.1 compiled with HarfBuzz version 1.3.0; using 1.3.0 using TECkit version 2.4

bookdown-demo.log.txt

[yihui]

The log does not seem to be complete, and I don't know what the error exactly was.

[FelipeCarrillo]

The problem is only with bookdown::pdf. Output created: _book/bookdown-demo.pdf_book Error in tools::file_path_as_absolute(output_file) : file '_book/bookdown-demo.pdf' does not exist But it works well with bookdown::gitbook and bookdown::epub_book

[yihui]

As I said, the problem is I don't know what exactly went wrong with xelatex. Your LaTeX log didn't show the error.

[atyre2]

I am having a similar issue, unable to compile the demo book out of the box. I should note that the exact error I am getting has changed since I re-installed MikTex and ensured all packages were updated. I was receiving the same error with the CRAN version of bookdown, but there I was able to select only a gitbook and that worked fine. Here are the results of clicking "Build Website" (only option after installing development version?) ==> rmarkdown::render_site(encoding = 'UTF-8')

|....... | 11% inline R code fragments

|.............. | 22% label: unnamed-chunk-1 (with options) List of 1 $ eval: logi FALSE

processing file: bookdown-demo.Rmd |...................... | 33% ordinary text without R code

|............................. | 44% label: unnamed-chunk-2 (with options) List of 1 $ include: logi FALSE

|.................................... | 56% ordinary text without R code

|........................................... | 67% label: nice-fig (with options) List of 4 $ fig.cap : chr "Here is a nice figure!" $ out.width: chr "80%" $ fig.asp : num 0.75 $ fig.align: chr "center"

|................................................... | 78% ordinary text without R code

|.......................................................... | 89% label: nice-tab (with options) List of 1 $ tidy: logi FALSE

|.................................................................| 100% inline R code fragments

"C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS bookdown-demo.utf8.md --to latex --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+ascii_identifiers+tex_math_single_backslash --output bookdown-demo.tex --table-of-contents --toc-depth 2 --template "C:\Users\Drew\Documents\R\win-library\3.3\rmarkdown\rmd\latex\default-1.17.0.2.tex" --number-sections --highlight-style tango --latex-engine xelatex --natbib --include-in-header preamble.tex --variable graphics=yes --variable "geometry:margin=1in" --variable tables=yes --standalone --bibliography book --bibliography packages output file: bookdown-demo.knit.md

! Undefined control sequence. l.17 \sys_if_engine_luatex:T

Error: Failed to compile bookdown-demo.tex. See bookdown-demo.log for more info. In addition: Warning message: running command '"xelatex" -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode "bookdown-demo.tex"' had status 1 Execution halted

Exited with status 1.

Requested information below.

devtools::session_info('bookdown') Session info ------------------------------------------------------ setting value
version R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31) system x86_64, mingw32
ui RStudio (1.0.136)
language (EN)
collate English_United States.1252
tz America/Chicago
date 2016-12-22

Packages ---------------------------------------------------------- package * version date source
backports 1.0.4 2016-10-24 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
base64enc 0.1-3 2015-07-28 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
bitops 1.0-6 2013-08-17 CRAN (R 3.2.2)
bookdown 0.3.5 2016-12-22 Github (rstudio/bookdown@f9ae75e) caTools 1.17.1 2014-09-10 CRAN (R 3.2.2)
digest 0.6.10 2016-08-02 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
evaluate 0.10 2016-10-11 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
highr 0.6 2016-05-09 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
htmltools 0.3.5 2016-03-21 CRAN (R 3.3.1)
jsonlite 1.1 2016-09-14 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
knitr 1.15.1 2016-11-22 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
magrittr 1.5 2014-11-22 CRAN (R 3.2.2)
markdown 0.7.7 2015-04-22 CRAN (R 3.2.2)
mime 0.5 2016-07-07 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
Rcpp 0.12.8 2016-11-17 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
rmarkdown 1.3 2016-12-21 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
rprojroot 1.1 2016-10-29 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
stringi 1.1.2 2016-10-01 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
stringr 1.1.0 2016-08-19 CRAN (R 3.3.2)
yaml 2.1.14 2016-11-12 CRAN (R 3.3.2)

MiKTeX-XeTeX 2.9.6100 (0.99996) (MiKTeX 2.9.6100 64-bit) (C) 1994-2008 by SIL International, (C) 2009-2012 by Jonathan Kew, (C) 2010-2012 by Han Han The Thanh, (C) 2012-2013 by Khaled Hosny TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society. compiled with zlib version 1.2.8; using 1.2.8 compiled with libpng version 1.6.24; using 1.6.24 compiled with poppler version 0.46.0 compiled with jpeg version 8.4 compiled with fontconfig version 2.12; using 2.12 compiled with FreeType2 version 2.6.5; using 2.6.5 compiled with Graphite2 version 1.3.8; using 1.3.8 compiled with ICU version 57.1; using 57.1 compiled with HarfBuzz version 1.3.0; using 1.3.0 using TECkit version 2.4

I have attached the log file here: bookdown-demo.txt

And while I'm at it, here is the tex file:

bookdown-demo.tex.zip

[yihui]

@atyre2 I just googled the error message and got this: http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/306246/9128

[atyre2]

Thank you! following the instructions in the comment fixes the problem. I'm embarrassed to admit that I looked at that post, and went right past the solution into the updating stuff linked in another comment.

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