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This is similar to this issue, but the solutions mentioned didn't work for me. I tried to install TinyTeX via different methods:

  • tinytex::install_tinytex()
  • download TinyTeX-0.zip, and use tinytex:::install_prebuilt() on it
  • manually extract TinyTeX-0.zip (unzip() works) and run install-tl-windows (Batch file)

In the first two cases, I have this error:

Error in system2("tlmgr", args, ...) : '"tlmgr"' not found
In addition: Warning message:
In extract(pkg, exdir = path.expand(target)) :
  error 1 in extracting from zip file

In the third case, the Windows console looks like this:

'\\crc\users\etienne\Desktop\TinyTeX-0\TinyTeX'
CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
UNC paths are not supported.  Defaulting to Windows directory.

and then closes without doing anything.

In every case, tinytex::is_tinytex() returns FALSE and tinytex::tlmgr_path() returns nothing.

I am working on Windows Server 2019 Standard (1809). What should I do?

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows Server x64 (build 17763)

Matrix products: default

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

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.1.0 tools_4.1.0    tinytex_0.33.1 xfun_0.25
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Solved in this GitHub issue

In summary:

  • run tinytex::install_tinytex(dir = "<path>") where <path> is a local folder on the server, e.g in my case "C:/Users/etienne/TinyTeX"
  • put options(tinytex.tlmgr.path = tinytex:::find_tlmgr("<path>")) in your .Rprofile (you can easily do that with usethis::edit_r_profile("user"))
  • restart R
  • check that tinytex::is_tinytex() is TRUE (you can also try to install a package with tinytex::tlmgr_install("booktabs") for instance)
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