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Can't render Quarto to PDF
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Bug description
Hi Guys
Everytime I try to render a Quarto documento to PDF I got an error about LaTeX and xelatex, could you help me with that?
Working with Windows 10, R 4.2.1, RStudio 2022.07.1

This is my yaml header
---
title: Bar Charts - R
date: today
description: El presente documento muestra como crear diagramas de barras (Bar Charts) en el lenguaje de programación R haciendo uso de la función barplot(), así como de los paquetes (packages) ggplot2 y lattice.
author:
name: Renzo Cácerers Rossi
url: https://www.youtube.com/c/RenzoCaceresRossi
affiliation: Rossi Corporation
affiliation-url: https://hablamosr.blogspot.com/
title-block-banner: "#808080"
format:
pdf:
theme: journal
toc: true
css: "style_003.css"
code-fold: true
code-tools: true
bibliography: biblio_003.bib
csl: apa.csl
link-citations: yes
number-sections: true
lang: Es-es
prefer-html: true
---
Checklist
- Please include a minimal, fully reproducible example in a single .qmd file? Please provide the whole file rather than the snippet you believe is causing the issue.
- Please format your issue so it is easier for us to read the bug report.
- Please document the RStudio IDE version you're running (if applicable), by providing the value displayed in the "About RStudio" main menu dialog?
- Please document the operating system you're running. If on Linux, please provide the specific distribution.
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First steps
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Research direction
Start with the supplied YAML header and reproduce the PDF render on Windows 10 with R 4.2.1 and RStudio 2022.07.1, focusing on the reported LaTeX and xelatex error. The report does not name a source file or test and omits the complete .qmd file, so first determine whether the failure is reproducible; done means identifying the rendering failure and confirming a PDF can be produced.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- latex, r
- Domain
- build-system, cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100