knit fails in rstudio with basic document

[JimShady]

Knitting a very basic rmarkdown document, using the Knit button, fails. Please find below my session info, and the errors I receive.

R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 16299)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                           
[5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] RPostgreSQL_0.6-2 DBI_1.0.0        

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_1.0.2      crayon_1.3.4    digest_0.6.22   zeallot_0.1.0   backports_1.1.5 evaluate_0.14   pillar_1.4.2   
 [8] rlang_0.4.1     rstudioapi_0.10 blob_1.2.0      vctrs_0.2.0     rmarkdown_1.16  tools_3.6.1     bit64_0.9-7    
[15] bit_1.1-14      hms_0.5.2       xfun_0.10       yaml_2.2.0      compiler_3.6.1  pkgconfig_2.0.3 htmltools_0.4.0
[22] knitr_1.25      tibble_2.1.3

output file: test.knit.md

"C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS test.utf8.md --to html4 
--from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+tex_math_single_backslash+smart --output test.html --email-obfuscation none --self-contained 
--standalone --section-divs --template "\\eu.ad.guycarp.com\UK_Home\J-Z\U1191972\R\win-library\3.6\rmarkdown\rmd\h\default.html" --no-highlight 
--variable highlightjs=1 --variable "theme:bootstrap" --include-in-header "C:\Users\u1191972\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpUBUn3S\rmarkdown-str3238487e61cd.html" --mathjax 
--variable "mathjax-url:https://mathjax.rstudio.com/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML" 
--lua-filter "\\eu.ad.guycarp.com/UK_Home/J-Z/U1191972/R/win-library/3.6/rmarkdown/rmd/lua/pagebreak.lua" 
--lua-filter "\\eu.ad.guycarp.com/UK_Home/J-Z/U1191972/R/win-library/3.6/rmarkdown/rmd/lua/latex-div.lua" 
pandoc.exe: \\: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 1
Execution halted

I've entered a few linebreaks into the error to try and make it a bit more read-able.

[Nate]

Looks like pandoc (the engine behind Rmarkdown) is looking for a file, perhaps from a read-in command, and failing to find it on your machine. This causes it to error out and leave you with the fail message.

Could you include the Rmd code you are using?

[JimShady]

Seems to be working now; not sure what I did ! Thanks anyway @Nate.

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