Bookdown: In readLines(con) : incomplete final line found on '_bookdown.yml'

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Hi

I am trying to make a gitbook using bookdown. But I get the following error, that I do not understand how to resolve.

In readLines(con) : incomplete final line found on '_bookdown.yml'

In my _bookdown.yml, I have just three lines

book_filename: "AMA Model"
chapter_name: "Section "
output_dir: docs

I have a docs folder in the same folder as _bookdown.yml

Please guide (the complete error is below)

thank you
Ram

Output created: docs/index.html
Warning messages:
1: In readLines(con) : incomplete final line found on '_bookdown.yml'
2: In readLines(input, encoding = "UTF-8") :
incomplete final line found on './_output.yml'
3: In readLines(con) : incomplete final line found on '_bookdown.yml'
4: In readLines(input, encoding = "UTF-8") :
incomplete final line found on '_output.yml'

2

I think you need to add a trailing line (one extra line) after the end of the code.

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3

Aha, that was easy :slight_smile: thank you.

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4

I meet the same problem as yours. Did you just add a space or tab at the end of the third line?

5

Add a blank line at the end of the file.

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