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Reputation: 598

YAML could not be successfully parsed in Rstudio knitr

I am facing a problem with knitr in RStudio. All of a sudden it stopped running, even knitr settings are not working showing me this message:

The YAML front matter in this document could not be successfully parsed. This parse error needs to be resolved before format options can be edited.

The code I am running is this simple one:

---
output:
  word_document:default
---
```{r}
Weight <- c(60,72, 57, 90, 95, 72)
Height <- c(1.75, 1.80, 1.65, 1.90, 1.74, 1.91)
BMI <- Weight/Height^2
BMI
```

Could you please someone help me ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3129

Answers (1)

user5219763
user5219763

Reputation: 1294

The :default probably ins't needed (It's a default after all), but I believe the reason it won't knit as written is that in the yaml front matter there needs to be a linebreak between word_document: and default

output:
word_document:
    default
---
```{r}
Weight <- c(60,72, 57, 90, 95, 72)
Height <- c(1.75, 1.80, 1.65, 1.90, 1.74, 1.91)
BMI <- Weight/Height^2
BMI
```

Upvotes: 1

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