TinyTeX is a TeX distribution based on TeX Live. tinytex is an R package that helps to install TinyTeX.
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Create PDF reports using R Markdown (TinyTeX) in Snakemake using Conda
I am currently having problems using TinyTeX in a conda environment with Snakemake. I have to install TinyTeX installation files using the command tinytex::install_tinytex() before running the pipeline. This installs TinyTeX outside of the created…

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Knitting Rmarkdown document to html/pdf fails
I'm trying to knit a R markdown file to a html/pdf document. This is the error message that I'm getting:
output file: test.knit.md
pandoc.exe: test.utf8.md: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
Error: pandoc document…

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Strange `tinytex` behavior - `~/.TinyTex` keeps dissapearing?
In my rocker/rstudio-derived docker container, I'm engulfed in a quagmire surrounding the yearly TexLive update and the R package tinytex.
I have gone through a plethora of iterations of tinytex::install_tinytex(), tinytex::uninstall_tinytex(),…

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Adding a new bibliography style with R Markdown and TinyTex
I'm writing a paper using R Markdown and TinyTex, using Biblatex for referencing. It works fine with default referencing styles, but I need to add a custom bibliography and citation style for the journal I'm writing for.
I need to follow the Unified…

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tinytex can't write to directory when a latex package is missing
I'm running RStudio (R version 3.6.0) on a Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS server and trying to compile a pdf using the {papaja} package. I removed the pre-bundled Tex distribution as recommended (sudo apt-get purge texlive-*) and installed…

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r markdown vitae package "Undefined control sequence" error when knitting to vitae predefined cv templates
In R markdown, I'm getting an "Undefined control sequence" error when knitting any of the out-of-the-box cv templates (awesomecv, moderncv, etc.) included in the "vitae" package. I am using tinytex. Here is the out-of-the-box code I execute (too…

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rmarkdown::render() failed to generate pdf, but the rstudio 'knitr' buttons works
I use tineytex package and have no problem knitting a pdf when I click on the knit button in rStudio. However, when I called rmarkdown::render() with the same .Rmd file as input, only an intermeidate .tex file was generated in the target folder.…

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Installing TinyTeX in a Singularity container
I'm writing a paper in RMarkdown and for better reproducibility, I want to containerize all required software in a singularity container. Unfortunately, when I try to install TinyTeX (which is recommended for Rmarkdown and I would prefer over…

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Unable to open https://yihui.name/tinytex/ and related pages
In the last 6 months, reaching the website https://yihui.name/tinytex/ has become very difficult here in Moscow (Russia) and in the last days impossible. I have no idea why it was blocked, but it can be reached only using a VPN. This problem does…

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Rmarkdown not producing pdf
Thank you in advance for any help! I have MikTeX installed on my computer (2.9.6) and the tinytex package but Rmarkdown will not knit to a pdf (it will however for html) no matter what engine I use. I updated the packages and the other solutions…

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Error in tools::file_path_as_absolute:
Building on this previous issue: https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues/1285
Trying to download into HTML (or PDF) from a Shiny app using rmarkdown. But error message:
Error in tools::file_path_as_absolute: file '/tmp/RtmpCjHU3c/report.Rmd'…

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Cannot Install TinyTeX package
I’m using R, RStudio but new to r-markdown and want to produce document in pdf/latex. I was a little rebutted by the installing the complete version of MiKTeX and was relief reading the solution proposed by Yihui Xie with TinyTeX and think this is…

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bookdown Error 'CTeX fontset `mac' is unavailable in current mode.' when using output format pdf_book & pdf_document2
I'm using 'bookdown' with RStudio, tinyTex and pandoc to write a report in Chinese. Because I need to use cross reference, I have to set the output format to 'pdf_document2', but I have an issue with CTeX fontest.
First, here is the YAML…

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exams::tex2image failing to compile with no logs
I'm trying to compile a R Markdown file that uses exam::tex2image to generate an image from a Latex equation.
Unfortunately the compilation fails, the error message talks about a log file which doesn't exist.
Source code:
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output:
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How can I check the version of tinytex installed on my windows system?
I am using tinytex latex compiler to create PDF documents in RStudio. This TinyTeX is dependent on TeX Live. Recently, TeX Live was freezed and new version of TeX Live was released. Therefore, I also uninstalled and reinstalled TinyTex. Now I want…

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