I have a simple bookdown project with several Rmd files, one file per chapter plus an index.Rmd.
index.Rmd
---
title: Title
author: My name
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
documentclass: book
---
01-chapter1.Rmd
# Some stuff
etc...
I want my index file mostly empty because all the chapter files are interchangeable, for now at least. I don't plan to have any short introduction. I might want to add some preface, but that breaks everything. Bookdown wants me to start with a chapter in the index.Rmd
Result
I can generate pdf and epub without any problem but for html or gitbook I get an error:
In split_chapters(output, gitbook_page, number_sections, split_by, : You have 6 Rmd input file(s) but only 5 first-level heading(s). Did you forget first-level headings in certain Rmd files?
and the generated book only consist of an error message:
/home/milo/Documents/bookdown_project/_book/index.html not found