title: R markdown to html via knitr + pandoc: error 137
body: <p>I have the following issue: I have an .Rmd file which I compile to html via knitr + pandoc using the Rstudio button.
  In this .Rmd file I pass json data to the js layer following the method described here:
  <a href="http://livefreeordichotomize.com/2017/01/24/custom-javascript-visualizations-in-rmarkdown/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://livefreeordichotomize.com/2017/01/24/custom-javascript-visualizations-in-rmarkdown/</a> </p>
  
  <p>This is because I want to use the data for some custom d3 visuals.
  This seems to work well for modest amounts of data, however when I try to pass in larger data I have a problem compiling from .Rmd to html; the problem seems to reside with pandoc, as I get:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>pandoc document conversion failed with error 137</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I attempted to look everywhere online for an explanation of this error message without any luck. Does anyone have any idea what this error means?</p>