RStudio 'knitr' button generates PDF output only about bookdown-demo HOT 6 CLOSED

RStudio will remember your last choice in the Build menu. I believe all formats should be built if you click All Formats in the menu:

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Thanks for a fast reply. But, unfortunately, my RStudio (macosx) does not remember the last choice in 'Build Book'. If I click knitr button it always produces a PDF file.

from bookdown-demo.

I think it is just that the PDF output is displayed, but actually all formats were generated. You can verify this by deleting the _book directory and clicking the Build Book button again, and you should see PDF, EPUB, and HTML files under the _book directory.

from bookdown-demo.

Unfortunately it is not the case. After I cleaned _book directory and rerun by clicking on 'knitr' button the _book directory contains only PDF and TEX files
$ ls -1 _book
bookdown-demo.pdf
bookdown-demo.tex

Also from the output in the 'R markdown window' I only see latex processing chain
pandoc +RTS -K512m -RTS bookdown-demo.utf8.md --to latex
Nothing about html.

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It seems that the first entry in _output.yml defines the default output type used when knitr button is clicked. I reordered the entries making html output first. Now it is a new default:

_output.yml

bookdown::gitbook:
  css: style.css
  config:
    toc:
      before: |
        <li><a href="./">A Minimal Book Example</a></li>
      after: |
        <li><a href="https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown" target="blank">Published with bookdown</a></li>
    edit: https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown-demo/edit/master/%s
bookdown::pdf_book:
  includes:
    in_header: preamble.tex
  latex_engine: xelatex
  citation_package: natbib
  keep_tex: yes
bookdown::epub_book: default

from bookdown-demo.

You are right about the order of the formats in _output.yml, but I said "click the Build Book button" instead of the Knit button, and I showed a screenshot above.

from bookdown-demo.