example fails to knit on Windows 7

[kategorically]

Hi,

I'm trying to knit the vignette example but I keep getting the same error:

pandoc.exe:    
Failed to retrieve C:/Users/ultio/Documents/R/win-library/3.1/tufterhandout/tufterhandout.css 
InvalidUrlException     
"C:/Users/ultio/Documents/R/win-library/3.1/tufterhandout/tufterhandout.css"
"Invalid scheme"    
Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 61    

I'm using a clean install of newest R and RStudio :

RStudio 0.98.1091 
R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
other attached packages:
[1] tufterhandout_1.2 knitr_1.8         rmarkdown_0.3.11     

[Michael Sachs]

What version of pandoc are you using? This appears to be related to rstudio/rmarkdown#238

[kategorically]

I'm using 1.12.4.2

[Michael Sachs]

Try upgrading to the latest: 1.13.1. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/1.13.1

If that doesn't fix it I think I can come up with a workaround.

[kategorically]

Unfortunately that didn't help. I'm getting the same error, only now with a new code:

pandoc.exe: Could not fetch C:/Users/ultio/Documents/R/win-library/3.1/tufterhandout/tufterhandout.css
InvalidUrlException
"C:/Users/ultio/Documents/R/win-library/3.1/tufterhandout/tufterhandout.css"
"Invalid scheme"
Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 67

[Michael Sachs]

I think I have a fix. Please try installing the bugfix branch

devtools::install_github("sachsmc/tufterhandout", ref = "bugfix")

and see if that fixed it. Unfortunately I don't have a Windows machine that I can test it on.

[kategorically]

Success! Thank you very much for your help :)