Goal Implementing a PDF function (a button on the webpage) that produces a PDF containing plots created by R that are shown on the webpage with markdown/knitr as shown in this tutorial: http://rprogramming.net/create-html-or-pdf-files-with-r-knitr-miktex-and-pandoc/
Setup
- Ubuntu server
- Installed MiKTeX for Ubuntu:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys D6BC243565B2087BC3F897C9277A7293F59E4889
echo "deb http://miktex.org/download/ubuntu xenial universe" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/miktex.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install miktex
- Installed Pandoc
R-code
# Set working directory
setwd("/var/www/html/test_Knitr")
# Create .md, .html, and .pdf files
print("Debug1: packages loaded")
setwd("/var/www/html/DATA/test")
knit("/var/www/html/test_Knitr/reporting_style.Rmd")
print("Debug2: knit succesfull")
setwd("/var/www/html/DATA/test")
print("Debug3: setwd successfull")
markdownToHTML('/var/www/html/DATA/test/reporting_style.md', '/var/www/html/DATA/test/reporting_style.html', options=c("use_xhml"))
print("Debug4: markdownToHTML succesfull")
system("pandoc -s /var/www/html/DATA/test/reporting_style.html -o /var/www/html/DATA/test/reporting_style.pdf")
print("Debug5: pandoc succesfull")
reporting_style.Rmd
---
title: "Reporting template"
output: html_document
---
## R Markdown
This is an R Markdown document. Markdown is a simple formatting syntax for authoring HTML, PDF, and MS Word documents.
Problem
The function runs perfectly until it reaches the last part system("pandoc.."
Here I receive an error message:
Sorry, but pdflatex did not succeed.
You may want to visit the MiKTeX project page, if you need help.
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'MiKTeX::Core::MiKTeXException'
what(): MiKTeX encountered an internal error.
pandoc: Error producing PDF
Question I have been looking all over the internet, not able to find a solution for this error.