

It’s here: % Title must be 250 characters or less. Then open up plos_latex_template.tex and look for the title. Title: "R Markdown + LaTeX Templates = <3" We can start by simply adding a title to our R Markdown file:. Our R Markdown file compiled using PLOS’. If you now knit to PDF, you get the expected output: So let’s replace all single $ with $$ in plos_latex_template.tex. That is, for pandoc, a dollar sign in your template is escaped with another dollar sign. When pandoc sees a dollar sign in your template, it thinks you want to plug in content from your R Markdown file. It turns out that dollar signs ($) have special meaning for pandoc, the program responsible for part of the journey from R Markdown to PDF. Let’s create a new R Markdown file with this content, and knit to PDF: -Īrgh, we get an error message: Error compiling template "plos_latex_template.tex" (line 57, column 121):Įrror: pandoc document conversion failed with error 5 tex file from PLOS as template for PDF output, and try to knit.įor example, if you go and download the PLOS LaTeX template, we get a folder that includes the file plos_latex_template.tex. Then create a new R Markdown document, tell it to use the. The first step is to do the simplest thing you can.ĭownload the LaTeX template files from your journal/conference. Step 1: Make the template compile on its own (aka, watch your $)
