From: Jason Miller <millerj870-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: pandoc-discuss <pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: pandoc creating folder with name that makes latex fail
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 07:47:38 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
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Thanks, Paul. I'm new to pandoc, so I wasn't sure which tree to bark up in
my troubleshooting. I'm posting a version of this question to the RStudio
community. Hadn't thought about knitr. Will bark up that tree, too.
On Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 7:43:20 AM UTC-7, pmags wrote:
>
> If you're using this with RMarkdown (e.g. via RStudio) the problem most
> likely lies in knitr or RMarkdown packages in terms of temporary
> directories generated.
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 10:33 AM Jason Miller <mille...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Pandoc is used to generate a PDF from an R markdown document that has a
>> chunk that generates a plot using ggplot2 and a custom function,
>> progress.plot. The chunk looks like this
>>
>>
>> ```{r charts, echo=FALSE, fig.cap="Your progress curve"}
>>
>> progress.plot(student)
>>
>> ```
>>
>>
>> The PDF is generated using a LaTeX engine. I think it uses PDFlatex via
>> pandoc. This is causing a problem that appears to be close to the pandoc
>> metal.
>>
>> It seems like pandoc uses a temporary folder to store the diagram I
>> generate with ggplot2. The name of that folder has as underscore. This
>> means the path to the graphic file, a string that's used in the .tex source
>> file, has an underscore. And the latex compiler doesn't like that.
>>
>> ! Missing $ inserted.
>> <inserted text>
>> $
>> l.142 ...de2020-05-06_files/figure-latex/charts-1}
>> \caption[Your
>> progress cu...
>>
>>
>> The "_files" in the latex log snippet, above, is the name of a folder
>> created by pandoc (or Rmarkdown). I am getting a "Missing $ inserted"
>> error before the latex compiler craps out. No PDF is generated and the
>> directory with the figure is deleted.
>>
>> Is there a pandoc configuration change to take the underscore out of the
>> temporary directory's name? Or is there any other workaround that will
>> allow me to generate figures to include in my R markdown document?
>>
>> Thanks for whatever advice people can share.
>>
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2020-05-07 14:33 Jason Miller
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2020-05-07 14:43 ` Paul M.
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2020-05-07 14:47 ` Jason Miller [this message]
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2020-05-07 16:48 ` John MacFarlane
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