The new RStudio with the visual editor looks intriguing but I have been reluctant to risk a major upgrade in the middle of a busy school term. I have a complicated book written using RMDs, bookdown, and the tufte package. I got a new laptop over the weekend and thought that as long as I had the old laptop to fall back on I would try the new developer preview of the latest RStudio environment.
Cloning the repository and trying to render the book generates an error message:
! LaTeX Error: Environment CSLReferences undefined.
After some digging around, I found that I could partially get past this error by adding a few lines to my preamble.tex . This seems to work but then I get an error message:
! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
The error message points to the ending line of the CSLReferences.
It seems like this may be an issue with the big leap forward in the pandoc (2.7.3 to 2.11.1.1) and perhaps some of the other packages such as tufte.
I've sunk a lot of time and need to move on. I'm sure the new version will be very helpful but I may need to give a little time for things to get worked out.
I can share the repo for anyone that would like to experiment but I'll probably just uninstall the preview (1.4.1013) and keep fingers crossed that the problem is solved for now by installing the current version of RStudio (1.3.1093) and the older pandoc.