Install/Uninstall TinyTeX — install

The function install_tinytex() downloads and installs TinyTeX, a custom LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live. The function uninstall_tinytex() removes TinyTeX; reinstall_tinytex() reinstalls TinyTeX as well as previously installed LaTeX packages by default; tinytex_root() returns the root directory of TinyTeX if found.

Usage

install_tinytex(
  force = FALSE,
  dir = "auto",
  version = "daily",
  bundle = "TinyTeX-1",
  repository = "auto",
  extra_packages = if (is_tinytex()) tl_pkgs(),
  add_path = TRUE
)

uninstall_tinytex(force = FALSE, dir = tinytex_root())

reinstall_tinytex(packages = TRUE, dir = tinytex_root(), ...)

tinytex_root(error = TRUE)

Arguments

force: Whether to force to install or uninstall TinyTeX. For install_tinytex(), force = FALSE will stop this function from installing TinyTeX if another LaTeX distribution is detected, or the directory specified via the dir argument exists.
dir: The directory to install (should not exist unless force = TRUE) or uninstall TinyTeX.
version: The version of TinyTeX, e.g., "2020.09" (see all available versions at https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex-releases, or via xfun::github_releases('rstudio/tinytex-releases')). By default, it installs the latest daily build of TinyTeX. If version = 'latest', it installs the latest monthly Github release of TinyTeX.
bundle: The bundle name of TinyTeX (which determines the collection of LaTeX packages to install). See https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex-releases#releases for all possible bundles and their meanings.
repository: The CTAN repository to set. By default, it is the repository automatically chosen by https://mirror.ctan.org (which is usually the fastest one to your location). You can find available repositories at https://ctan.org/mirrors), e.g., 'http://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/CTAN/', or 'https://mirror.las.iastate.edu/tex-archive/'. In theory, this argument should end with the path /systems/texlive/tlnet, and if it does not, the path will be automatically appended. You can get a full list of CTAN mirrors via tinytex:::ctan_mirrors().
extra_packages: A character vector of extra LaTeX packages to be installed. By default, a vector of all currently installed LaTeX packages if an existing installation of TinyTeX is found. If you want a fresh installation, you may use extra_packages = NULL.
add_path: Whether to run the command tlmgr path add to add the bin path of TeX Live to the system environment variable PATH.
packages: Whether to reinstall all currently installed packages.
...: Other arguments to be passed to install_tinytex() (note that the extra_packages argument will be set to tl_pkgs() if packages = TRUE).
error: Whether to signal an error if TinyTeX is not found.

Note

If you really want to disable the installation, you may set the environment variable TINYTEX_PREVENT_INSTALL to true. Then install_tinytex() will fail immediately. This can be useful to sysadmins who want to prevent the accidental installation of TinyTeX.

Installing TinyTeX requires perl (on Linux, perl-base is insufficient).

References

See the TinyTeX documentation (https://yihui.org/tinytex/) for the default installation directories on different platforms.