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Template for writing an Oxford University thesis in R Markdown; uses the OxThesis LaTeX template and was inspired by thesisdown.

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package ‘xelatex’ is not available for this version of R

alexandrerays opened this issue · comments

commented

When I run the index.Rmd I got this:

WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:

https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘D:/alexa/Documents/R/win-library/4.1’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘xelatex’ is not available for this version of R

A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere,
see the ideas at
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages

I tried to use R version 4.2.1 and 4.1.2 and got the same error.

Any help?

commented

Interesting, haven't seen this one before. I just downloaded a fresh version of the GitHub repository, and it still knits to PDF without any trouble --- I tried first on R 4.2.1, then upgraded to R 4.2.2.

Things to try:

  • have you installed tinytex or some other LaTeX distribution?
  • try removing the line latex_engine: xelatex in index.Rmd -- this will use pdflatex instead of xelatex for PDF compilation