Error: Failed to compile *.tex

[meefen]

I was running bookdown::publish_book(name = "foo", account = "bar", render = "server") to publish a draft book and ran into the following error. Execution halted at the pandoc line and there was a warning about latexmk. Any suggestions?

2017/01/03 21:21:48.353203906 /opt/rstudio-connect/ext/pandoc/pandoc +RTS -K512m -RTS snaEd.utf8.md --to latex --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+ascii_identifiers+tex_math_single_backslash --output snaEd.tex --table-of-contents --toc-depth 2 --template /opt/rstudio-connect/mnt/packrat/3.2.4/v2/library/rmarkdown/d8f0cf248116dbdfc23f35991d0ed3f7/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 biblio.bib --bibliography packages.bib 2017/01/03 21:21:49.356402664 Error: Failed to compile snaEd.tex. 2017/01/03 21:21:49.356480568 In addition: Warning message: 2017/01/03 21:21:49.356510190 Your latexmk version seems to be too low. You may need to update the latexmk package or your LaTeX distribution. 2017/01/03 21:21:49.358394521 Execution halted 2017/01/03 21:21:49.352719665 2017/01/03 21:21:49.352731335 Latexmk, John Collins, 7 May 2011. Version 4.24 Site deployment failed with error: exit status 1

Tex Live version is current (i.e., 2016).

$ latexmk -v Latexmk, John Collins, 22 April 2016. Version 4.45

Session Info:

> devtools::session_info('bookdown') Session info -------------------------------------------------------------------------- setting value
version R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) system x86_64, darwin13.4.0
ui RStudio (1.0.44)
language (EN)
collate en_CA.UTF-8
tz America/Chicago
date 2017-01-03
Packages ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ package * version date source
backports 1.0.4 2016-10-24 CRAN (R 3.2.2)
base64enc 0.1-3 2015-07-28 CRAN (R 3.2.0)
bitops 1.0-6 2013-08-17 CRAN (R 3.2.0)
bookdown 0.1.16 2016-10-15 Github (rstudio/bookdown@867a774) caTools 1.17.1 2014-09-10 CRAN (R 3.2.0)
digest 0.6.10 2016-08-02 CRAN (R 3.2.5)
evaluate 0.10 2016-10-11 CRAN (R 3.2.5)
highr 0.6 2016-05-09 CRAN (R 3.2.5)
htmltools 0.3.5 2016-03-21 CRAN (R 3.2.4)
httpuv 1.3.3 2015-08-04 CRAN (R 3.2.0)
jsonlite 1.1 2016-09-14 CRAN (R 3.2.5)
knitr 1.14.11 2016-10-15 Github (yihui/knitr@9aa7c9b)
magrittr 1.5 2014-11-22 CRAN (R 3.2.0)
markdown 0.7.7 2015-04-22 CRAN (R 3.2.0)
mime 0.5 2016-07-07 CRAN (R 3.2.5)
miniUI 0.1.1 2016-01-15 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
packrat 0.4.8-1 2016-09-07 CRAN (R 3.2.5)
PKI 0.1-3 2015-07-28 CRAN (R 3.2.0)
R6 2.1.2 2016-01-26 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
Rcpp 0.12.7 2016-09-05 CRAN (R 3.2.5)
RCurl 1.95-4.8 2016-03-01 CRAN (R 3.2.4)
RJSONIO 1.3-0 2014-07-28 CRAN (R 3.2.0)
rmarkdown 1.3 2016-12-21 CRAN (R 3.2.2)
rprojroot 1.1 2016-10-29 CRAN (R 3.2.2)
rsconnect 0.4.3 2016-05-02 CRAN (R 3.2.5)
rstudioapi 0.6 2016-06-27 CRAN (R 3.2.5)
shiny 0.14.1 2016-10-05 CRAN (R 3.2.5)
sourcetools 0.1.5 2016-09-15 CRAN (R 3.2.5)
stringi 1.1.2 2016-10-01 CRAN (R 3.2.5)
stringr 1.1.0 2016-08-19 CRAN (R 3.2.5)
xtable 1.8-2 2016-02-05 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
yaml 2.1.13 2014-06-12 CRAN (R 3.2.0)

[meefen]

I should have set the render parameter to local. It fixed the issue. Thanks.

bookdown::publish_book(name = "foo", account = "bar", render = "local")

[yihui]

You are right. The LaTeX support on bookdown.org is still not good enough. You cannot really build the book on the server side when the output format is PDF. Other output formats should be fine.

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