Issues knitting to pdf in rmarkdown

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I am trying to knit my R markdown document to pdf. It works fine when I knit to html, but R markdown returns the error below when I try to knit to pdf:

! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char − (U+2212)
(inputenc) not set up for use with LaTeX.

See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
Type H for immediate help.
...

l.398 −

Try running pandoc with --latex-engine=xelatex.
pandoc: Error producing PDF
Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 43
Execution halted

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Try switching which LaTex typeset you are using. Find this in:

Tools > Global Options > Sweave > Typeset LaTex into PDF using:

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Thank you very much @dlsweet

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