Suddenly, I run into an error when knitting to PDF in Markdown/Bookdown. Nothing about my system has changed. The error is being caused by a 'horzontal rule' i.e. --- or *** anywhere in markdown,...

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 do...

I'm trying to reference a table using the bookdown package. In the documentation for tables, the author only shows how to create tables using knitr::kable. ```{r table1} knitr::kable( head(iris,...

I am trying to do something simple: render the tufte options for a book using the basic bookdown example package. I can make the tufte style book fine, but I want it to have the floating TOC and no...

I compiling a short document using bookdown in Rstudio. I would simply like to drop the table of contents at the beginning of the document. I could "knit to pdf" instead of "knit to pdf_book" or "k...

I am writing a document with a strict requirement to use arial 12 point. I have modified my output yml in bookdown like this: site: bookdown::bookdown_site fontsize: 12pt fontfamily: arial documen...

This is a follow up to an earlier question I asked here: creating accompanying slides for bookdown project Bookdown allows compiling the file to various format, including multiple pdf. The issue is...

I would like to justify all the text in my gitbook, but I couldn't find a solution. So far I've tried: Set the text-align as justified in the style/body, right after the YAML Header: <style&g...

I'm getting the following error when trying to build this gitbook on my local machine (was trying to use it as a template for creating my own work): https://github.com/lgatto/IntroMachineLearningW...

I would like to make the font size of all captions (figures and tables) in my R Markdown document smaller. I'm using bookdown. The final output is pdf and I'm working in R Studio. To load the pictu...

For some reason I have problems with cross-referencing figures in a bookdown document. Here is a minimal example: --- output: bookdown::html_document2: fig_caption: yes --- Reference example:...

I am preparing a tutorial for a course and I want to change the colour of the error to be red. I am using BookDown and gitbook as my output format. But I found that the option class.output is not w...

I am preparing an historical book manuscript, written in R-Markdown with Bookdown, which will have 8 chapters, each with 100+ Chicago-style endnotes, using the GitBook-style web format. My goal i...

Using RMarkdown I always generate pdf documents via Rmd -> pandoc -> TeX -> pdflatex -> pdf and accomplish figure references using \\label{something} in the fig.cap as in the follow example: --- t...

I've found a couple bookdown documents on github (namely Hadley's R for Data Science and Efficient R) that I'd like to build from source as ebooks. Bookdown, which the documents are written in, has...

How do I create a single, standalone bookdown html file that retains the gitbook format/style? Using the bookdown demo, my goal is to create a single .html file that I can share or publish to my we...

How do you achieve roman numerals for things like preface, acknowledgement etc and restart Arabic numbering at 1 for first page of chapter one in R Bookdown. I am wanting to render to pdf in bookd...

Following this post, I'm trying to put @YihuiXie 's answer in practice with the PLOS template of rticles but it doesn't work. Any help would be very appreciated! Below in a minimal example: --- t...

I am using the following template --- title: "Nice try buddy" author: "SpaceMan" date: "13 December 2057" output: bookdown::pdf_document2 header-includes: - \usepackage{booktabs} - \usepackage{lo...

In R, the function include_url() from the knitr package allows to set the height, but not the width of an embedded iframe. knitr::include_url("https://www.youtube.com/embed/9bZkp7q19f0", height="3...

In Rstudio, I create a new project and select book project using bookdown. The built in example runs perfectly as expected and i can compile 4 books - gitbook, html, epub, and pdf. Great. The next ...

Is there a way to automatically number the figures in captions when I knit R Markdown document into an HTML format? What I would like is for my output to be the following: Figure 1: Here is my ...

How do I properly indent paragraphs within lists in bookdown? I would like to start a new paragraph after a blank line as show in the example below. This example works for RMarkdown when used outsi...

I want to add tables and figures after the bibliography in an R Markdown document. However, R Markdown documents will by default always add the bibliography to the end of the report. Is there an e...

This is the extension of previous question: Automating the generation of preformated text in Rmarkdown using R. Here's the task: You have a collection of song lyrics stored in data.frame, the col...