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TinyTeX

The installation and maintenance of LaTeX have bothered me for several years. Yes, there are MiKTeX, MacTeX, and TeX Live, but the common problems are:

  1. You have to either install a basic version that is relatively small (several hundred MB) but basically doesn't work, because it is very likely that certain frequently used LaTeX packages are missing; or you install the full version that is several GB, but in your whole life, you probably will only use 1% of the packages.

  2. The documentation for installation and maintenance is often way too long for beginners. For example, I doubt if anyone has the courage or patience to read the tlmgr manual (yes, it is very useful).

I believe these problems can be solved by TinyTeX, a different LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live that is small in size (about 150Mb) but still functions well in most cases. Even if you run into the problem of missing LaTeX packages, it should be super clear to you what you need to do. The manual should be at most two pages long.

This repo contains the installation scripts of TinyTeX (under the tools directory) and the R companion package tinytex. Please see the full documentation at https://yihui.name/tinytex/. Obviously I hope it is not too long.

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install.packages('tinytex')

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Yihui Xie

Last Published

December 20th, 2017

Functions in tinytex (0.2)

r_texmf

Add/remove R's texmf tree to/from TeX Live
tlmgr

Run the TeX Live Manager
install_tinytex

Install/Uninstall TinyTeX
latexmk

Compile a LaTeX document to PDF
parse_packages

Find missing LaTeX packages from a LaTeX log file