Rstudio is deleting key files when I knit (both PDF and HTML)

Question

So I am having an R nightmare. I\'ve returned to a project I built under the previous iteration (or perhaps one more) of RStudio. I produced a workable report that I was ask

Answer 1

Rename your file to ISS_Time_Series.Rmd and try again.

It is the spaces in the document name that makes rmarkdown::render() delete the files that have been loaded or sourced.

A an issue has already been filed. See https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues/580