How to output a pdf book from Rnotebook? - r

I'm not getting a pdf output from my rnotebook.
My header in my "index.Rmd" is:
---
title: "some title"
author: "me"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
documentclass: book
bibliography: [book.bib, packages.bib]
biblio-style: apalike
link-citations: yes
description: "Notes on a Leasing Company busines risk and opportunities."
---
I'm rendering the book in the console with the following code:
bookdown::render_book("index.rmd", output_format = "bookdown::pdf_book")
Output is:
Error: Functions that produce HTML output found in document targeting latex output.
Please change the output type of this document to HTML. Alternatively, you can allow
HTML output in non-HTML formats by adding this option to the YAML front-matter of
your rmarkdown file:
always_allow_html: yes
Note however that the HTML output will not be visible in non-HTML formats.
How do I go about changing the output type?
My file "_output.yml" file is:
toc:
before: |
<li>A Minimal Book Example</li>
after: |
<li>Published with bookdown</li>
download: ["pdf", "epub"]
bookdown::pdf_book:
includes:
in_header: preamble.tex
latex_engine: xelatex
citation_package: natbib
keep_tex: yes
bookdown::epub_book: default

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author: "Author"
date: "16/03/2020"
output:
pdf_document:
fig_caption: yes
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in_header: preamble.tex
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https://rstudio.cloud/project/1061588
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author: "Author"
date: "16/03/2020"
output:
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Create new project with RStudio and choose "Book Project using
bookdown" as option.
Download some .csl file from https://www.zotero.org/styles and copy to root of project. In my case: chicago-author-date-de.csl
Set in _output.yml citation_package: none
Add in all formats (gitbook, pdf_book, epub_book) in _output.yml the line pandoc_args: [ "--csl", "chicago-author-date-de.csl" ]
Delete or comment out in index.Rmd the line biblio-style: apalike
Replace the content of 06-references.Rmd with # References {-}
Here is my _output.yml file:
bookdown::gitbook:
css: style.css
pandoc_args: [ "--csl", "chicago-author-date-de.csl" ]
config:
toc:
before: |
<li>A Minimal Book Example</li>
after: |
<li>Published with bookdown</li>
download: ["pdf", "epub"]
bookdown::pdf_book:
includes:
in_header: preamble.tex
latex_engine: xelatex
citation_package: none
pandoc_args: [ "--csl", "chicago-author-date-de.csl" ]
keep_tex: yes
bookdown::epub_book:
pandoc_args: [ "--csl", "chicago-author-date-de.csl" ]

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