Thanks, I got the misconception that only formats in the rticles package can be used in base_format. But when I got a error message
! LaTeX Error: Environment cslreferences undefined.
error: LaTeX failed to compile tufte.tex. See https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See tufte.log for more info.
My yaml header is set as follows, with default content from the template
---
title: "Tufte Handout"
subtitle: "An implementation in R Markdown"
author: "JJ Allaire and Yihui Xie"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
output:
bookdown::pdf_book:
base_format: tufte::tufte_book
bibliography: skeleton.bib
link-citations: yes
xfun::session_info(c("rmarkdown", "bookdown", "tufte"))
#> R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
#> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
#> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18362)
#>
#> Locale:
#> LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
#> LC_CTYPE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
#> LC_MONETARY=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
#> LC_NUMERIC=C
#> LC_TIME=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
#>
#> Package version:
#> base64enc_0.1.3 bookdown_0.20 digest_0.6.25 evaluate_0.14
#> glue_1.4.2 graphics_4.0.2 grDevices_4.0.2 highr_0.8
#> htmltools_0.5.0 jsonlite_1.7.1 knitr_1.30.1 magrittr_1.5
#> markdown_1.1 methods_4.0.2 mime_0.9 rlang_0.4.7
#> rmarkdown_2.3.9 stats_4.0.2 stringi_1.5.3 stringr_1.4.0
#> tinytex_0.26.1 tools_4.0.2 tufte_0.6 utils_4.0.2
#> xfun_0.17 yaml_2.2.1
#>
#> Pandoc version: 2.9.2.1
Created on 2020-09-25 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)
And at the bottom of the log file
! LaTeX Error: Environment cslreferences undefined.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...
l.599 \begin{cslreferences}
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
14008 strings out of 482799
207148 string characters out of 5953272
483578 words of memory out of 5000000
28998 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000
602774 words of font info for 136 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000
14 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
55i,11n,51p,1147b,503s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s
! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!