Chapter starts with 0.1 (not 1.0) in pdf_book format

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Hi,

can you format your question correctly to help us understand better and see what your rmd file really look like ?

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You can use 5 backticks instead of 3 to be able to include correctly the R code chunk

---
title:"test"
---
Text
# code chunk
```{r, eval = FALSE}
cat("test")
```

For your issue, it could be related to not having a title 1 in your Rmarkdown. If you begin with a ## for the first title in your document, and not a title with #, it will began the count to 0. However, not seing your code correctly, I am not sure...