公司服务器没有互联网链接，最近两天鼓捣了会TexLive，想看看怎么才能弄一个离线的Repo。然后，我发现真是太乱了…真看不懂…

这个你可以早一点问我，就不必浪费这个时间了。其实我已经把 TeX Live 全集都打包好了，只不过我还没昭告天下而已（因为我还没确定最终把这些超级大包存在哪里，是放我个人 Github 账号里还是转移到公司账号下）。全集是 TinyTeX-2：https://github.com/yihui/tinytex-releases/releases/tag/daily

通过 R 安装：

tinytex:::install_prebuilt('TinyTeX-2')

或者通过脚本安装皆可：https://yihui.org/tinytex/#installation 设置环境变量 TINYTEX_INSTALLER=TinyTeX-2。

当然，你也可以直接下载文件，解压缩到合适的位置。

这个精简版的全集体积比官方应该是能小一半的。装它之后就不必再担心缺包了。

本以为这个需求能很快找到答案，我还是低估了LaTeX的复杂程度！太赞了，我马上试试，谢谢！

嗯，架设一个可以离线使用的仓库估计是会有点复杂，但打包所有的 LaTeX 包就简单多了。既然架设库的主要目的是为了装缺失的包，那还不如就整锅端下来后一劳永逸了。

是的。其实我本来就是想全装，但tlmgr install scheme-full 在最后一步老是报错，原因不详，已放弃。现在直接一步到位，非常开心，正合我意。

嗯，是的，这个命令确实是有出错的可能，我也一样读不懂错误消息、不明白原因。比如在 AppVeyor 平台上的 macOS 系统就会出错，我直接加个 || true 给暴力忽略了错误：https://github.com/yihui/tinytex-releases/blob/4149573c79eae0d0d722218e0420d799f2c76cc1/appveyor.yml#L96 我试过在 Github Actions 的三大操作系统上运行也会出错，同样原因不详，所以现在我依然在用 AppVeyor 打包。

您好，我现在正在做一个仿真软件（mmCEsim）可以自动导出并编译 LaTeX 报告，仅在软件安装包里给用户提供 minimal 的 packages。我想是不是可以直接利用您在 tools 里的代码配合上 GitHub Actions 直接进行 build 呢？不确定是不是修改 tools/pkgs-custom.txt 还是 tools/pkgs-yihui.txt，再调整对应的 build.yml 内容即可实现 :-)

@Teddy-van-Jerry 是的，不过更简单的办法是你先安装 TinyTeX-0，在此基础上再用 tlmgr install 添加你需要的其它包，最后将 TinyTeX 文件夹打包发行。当然，用你说的办法从头编译也是可以的，只是稍微啰嗦一点。

哦哦明白啦，非常感谢！

Guest *Owe Jessen* @ 2017-12-16 13:43:29 originally posted:

Thanks for the works. I got it to install on a windows machine without problems. Where I ran into problems was installing it in Linux on Windows (WSL).

it reports back with warning:

In tinytex::install_tinytex() :
TinyTeX was not successfully installed or configured.

Tried it as a user or with sudo ... to install system-wide.

Guest *Roberto Salas* @ 2017-12-27 02:13:45 originally posted:

thank you so much Yihui, the package works flawlessly.

Guest *Rihuan Huang* @ 2018-01-07 00:36:23 originally posted:

Thanks so much for your work!! I installed it and everything worked fine until I needed a package called "pifont". It reported as:
tlmgr install pifont
tlmgr install: package pifont not present in repository.
tlmgr: action install returned an error; continuing.
tlmgr: package repository http://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet (not verified: gpg unavailable)
tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting.

I am not really a TeX expert, so I wonder if there is an other way to install this package.

Guest *Enrico Spinielli* @ 2018-01-24 16:08:22 originally posted:

The installation script did not work for me due to authenticated proxies not being automatically considered/found.
What I did was to manually download all the relevant files, move them in the %TEMP% directory, comment out all the download lines in the installation script before running it.

Guest *U UlvHare* @ 2018-02-28 17:28:29 originally posted:

Dear Yihui, thank you very much for your work!
It's a great idea, but when I tried to install TinyTex to /usr/local/tinytex from R:
install_tinytex(dir="/usr/local/tinytex")
everything installs succesfully to... $HOME/.Tinytex and $HOME/bin
But prints "TinyTeX installed to /usr/local/tinytex", then:
In file.rename(target, user_dir) :
cannot rename '/home/alver/.TinyTeX' to '/usr/local/tinytex' because of 'Invalid cross-device link'

Guest *Judy Lewis* @ 2018-03-05 18:54:03 originally posted:

Yihui, can you help? I am stumped. I installed tinytex and am now unable to generate pdf reports from Shiny/Rmarkdown. The error I consistently see is pasted below. Any ideas? Thank you so much! Judy Lewis

"C:/Users/lewisjt4/AppData/Local/Pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS reportPDF.utf8.md --to latex --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+ascii_identifiers+tex_math_single_backslash --output pandoc14c46ff645e9.tex --template "C:Userslewisjt4DocumentsRwin-library3.4rmarkdownrmdlatexdefault-1.17.0.2.tex" --highlight-style tango --latex-engine pdflatex --variable graphics=yes --variable "geometry:margin=1in"
Warning: running command '"pdflatex" -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode "file14c49df4426.tex"' had status 1
Warning: Error in : Failed to compile file14c49df4426.tex.
Stack trace (innermost first):
58: show_latex_error
57: on_error
56: system2_quiet
55: run_engine
54: latexmk_emu
53: tinytex::latexmk
52: latexmk
51: rmarkdown::render
50: download$func [downloadReports.R#158]
1: runApp
Error : Failed to compile file14c49df4426.tex.

Guest *Danny Swan* @ 2018-03-13 21:11:31 originally posted:

Hi Yihui,

As far as I can tell the auto-installation of new LaTeX packages doesn't work properly when knitting an .Rnw from RStudio. So, for instance, I had several computers that I needed to configure tinytex on, and I have a paper that is complete that I was trying to knit in RStudio to make sure that I had all of my packages installed. On the first computer, I ended up doing the tinytex::tlmgr_search() and tinytex::tlmgr_update() routine iteratively in a process that took up ~30 mins, in part because it seems like tinytex by default doesn't install packages that are dependencies for packages you are installing. On the second computer, I ran pdflatex() on the .tex file produced by the RStudio knitting process and it much more quickly found and installed the required packages. This is kind of implied by the paragraph where you say "To compile a LaTeX document to PDF, call one of these functions (depending on the LaTeX engine you want to use) in tinytex: pdflatex(), xelatex(), and lualatex(). " but is a little confusing because of the previous sentence that says "To compile an R Markdown document to PDF, there is nothing else you have to know."

I'm writing all of this not because I am looking for you to fix this, but I would like to effectively share my experiences with other users of the package trying to switch from MikTeX + RStudio (at least in Windows) that habitually use a lot of LaTeX packages not automatically installed by tinytex::install_tinytex(). I know that I can offer edits as a fork on Github via the provided "Edit this page" link, but I am not sure if it would be better to offer an edit to the "for R users" section as a small addendum or as an edit to the FAQ. Thoughts?

Guest *vt8235* @ 2018-03-19 16:30:32 originally posted:

I do not know what I am doing wrong. I hit the .bat file and it start to execute the steps but it pulls the whole TeXLive from what I see in the prompt. it killed me watching how thousands of packages were pulled just with letter "a". Any idea? Requires the custom edit of some file?

Guest *Vin* @ 2018-03-24 17:56:51 originally posted:

Hello Yihui,

First I really want to thank you for your hard work! Unfortunately it doesn't work for me :(

Am I doing anything wrong ?

Windows 10 / RStudio

I uninstalled MiKTeX first then installed the package successfully with:

install.packages(c('tinytex', 'rmarkdown'))
tinytex::install_tinytex()

But then when I try to knit a .Rmd document to pdf in Rstudio, I get this error message:

output file: report.knit.md

Error: Failed to compile report.tex.
In addition: Warning message:
running command '"pdflatex" -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode "report.tex"' had status 127
Execution halted

No TeX installation detected (TeX is required to create PDF output). You should install a recommended TeX distribution for your platform:

Thanks a lot !

Guest *Hengni Cai* @ 2018-03-28 18:48:17 originally posted:

Hi Yihui,

We build internal debian packages which depend on knitr. In the latest version of knitr.1.20, knitr::knit2pdf uses tinytex::latexmk to replace tools::texi2pdf. However, r-cran-tinytex is not available, so it causes problems in our debian packages. Do you think it is possible to release r-cran-tinytex soon? Thanks a lot.

Guest *Jose De Jesus Filho* @ 2018-04-20 15:32:19 originally posted:

I am using RStudio. I am getting the following error:

! Package babel Error: Unknown option `portuguese'. Either you misspelled it
(babel) or the language definition file portuguese.ldf was not f
ound.

I tried to install portuguese.ldf with no success.

Guest *Liam Huang* @ 2018-05-03 12:48:08 originally posted:

Oh, you naughty boy.

Guest *Stefan Lindow* @ 2018-05-10 07:02:55 originally posted:

Install on MacOS High Sierra with RStudio 1.1383 is cancelled with the following message:

add_link_dir_dir: destination /usr/local/bin not writable, no links from /Users/administrator/Library/TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-darwin.
tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting.
add of symlinks had 1 error(s), see messages above.
Fehler: Failed to install TinyTeX

help! =)

Guest *Huabin Wu* @ 2018-05-20 03:47:38 originally posted:

Hi. Thanks for this great package.
I am using LyX. It seems the package 'fourier' simply does not work. LyX gives the error message:

The external program
xelatex
finished with an error. It is recommended you fix the cause of the external program's error (check the logs).

And the log file says:

xdvipdfmx:fatal: Could not find encoding file "8r.enc".

Google tells me 8r.enc should come with psnfss. I've tried to reinstall psnfss, fourier, utopia. Still not working.

Help please! Thanks a lot.

Guest *Douglas Jones* @ 2018-05-29 20:51:13 originally posted:

Thanks so much for all your great contributions!
I've restarted RStudio, etc, but I keep getting the error:

! Package inputenc Error: Unicode character œ (U+9C)
(inputenc) not set up for use with LaTeX.

Any ideas?

Guest *Peter Smith* @ 2018-06-13 23:04:07 originally posted:

Well that was journey. Here are some notes for anyone else trying to get this excellent looking package to work under FreeBSD 11.1

First, deinstalling texlive-full (the FreeBSD package) leaves traces all over the system. It's messy to find the bits. In the end I had to search the .TinyTex tree and delete anything on the rest of the system that matched names (crude but effective).

Secondly, during installation I got a number of errors, e.g.,

fmtutil: running `xetex -ini -jobname=xetex -progname=xetex -etex xetex.ini' ...
Shared object "libfreetype.so.9" not found, required by "xetex"

On this particular installation, l have:

/usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so
/usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6

So I cheated and linked libfreetype.so to libfreetype.so.9. That allowed the package to install cleanly.

Finally, to bookdown to compile to a PDF (the whole point of the exercise)

It took forever for me to figure out I need to do:

tlmgr install biblatex-apa

and then it was easy to do

tlmgr install babal-english

Eventually, I came to believe that tlmgr was my friend.

Thanks for a great package.

Guest *Yongduek Seo* @ 2018-06-30 07:32:59 originally posted:

Is there a way of using Korean letters and produce unbroken PDF through Rmd and tinytex? Bookdown with tinytex works just perfect and I could produce some results in english; Thanks a lot! Now I want to include some korean characters partly in my Rmd files, but the PDF produced does not presents them. Of course, git_book is OK.

Many thanks in advance.

Guest *cmd* @ 2018-08-09 17:50:45 originally posted:

Hi there! This looks very cool. I was attempting to fixup some of the missing styles but it was failing on times.sty even when it seemed to work on cmap.sty

On times.sty, it remains not found after installing

(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/txtbabel.def))))

! LaTeX Error: File `times.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <return> to proceed,  
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Enter file name: x

outdir $ tlmgr search --global --file "/times.sty"  
tlmgr: package repository <http://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet> (verified)  
psnfss:  
texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/times.sty  
outdir $ tlmgr install times  
tlmgr: package repository <http://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet> (verified)  
[1/1, ??:??/??:??] install: times [281k]  
running mktexlsr ...  
done running mktexlsr.  
running updmap-sys ...  
done running updmap-sys.  
tlmgr: package log updated: /home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log  
outdir $ pdflatex file.tex  
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live 2018) (preloaded format=pdflatex)  
restricted write18 enabled.  
entering extended mode  
(./file.tex  
LaTeX2e <2018-04-01> patch level 5  
(./sphinxmanual.cls  
Document Class: sphinxmanual 2017/03/26 v1.6 Document class (Sphinx manual)  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/report.cls  
Document Class: report 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)))  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty)  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cmap/cmap.sty)  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)<<t1.cmap>>)  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty  
For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty))  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty)  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty))  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amssymb.sty  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amsfonts.sty))  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/switch.def)  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/nil.ldf  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def  
(/home/cdiesh/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/txtbabel.def))))

! LaTeX Error: File `times.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <return> to proceed,  
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Enter file name:

This is output from sphinx -b latex being run through pdflatex of TinyTeX

Guest *Vee* @ 2018-08-14 13:47:41 originally posted:

I have been trying to install TinyTex from the R package tinytex, but I get a lot of warnings and errors, also I cannot compile to PDF. I have checked online for solutions but none are similar to my problems,

trying URL 'https://github.com/yihui/tinytex/raw/master/tools/texlive.profile'
Content length 142 bytes
downloaded 295 bytes

Error in setwd(dir) : character argument expected
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In download.file(url, output, ..., method = method) :
downloaded length 1000370 != reported length 19775481
2: In download.file(url, output, ..., method = method) :
URL 'http://ftp.sun.ac.za/ftp/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl.zip': status was 'Transferred a partial file'
3: In download.file(url, output, ..., method = method) :
downloaded length 323584 != reported length 19775481
4: In unzip("install-tl.zip") : error 1 in extracting from zip file

Guest *Augusto Ortega* @ 2018-08-17 22:23:11 originally posted:

Hi Yihui,

Thanks for your effort, I love the things I can do with in RStudio thanks to tinytex. I apologize if I didn't look hard enough for an answer to this problem. I'm dealing with knitting pdf documents with long tables using R Markdown and I noticed only when I ask kable to do "full_width = T" I get an error that says "! LaTeX Error: Environment tabu undefined.". If I go with "longtable=T" I get "! LaTeX Error: Environment longtabu undefined." I thought it was a problem of me not having the packages I need but after installing them either on the terminal or with RStudio things don't change. Funny thing when I do "full_width = F" I can knit with no problem looking great (but I have to specify "column_spec()" if I want the table to span the whole width of the page). I'm enjoying working with your code and I was able to workaround this problem so I'm sharing this in case you may have an idea of what's going on. I'm running RStudio on a linux server that has CentOS 7.
Thank you,

Augusto

Guest *Liang Yang* @ 2018-10-25 22:58:38 originally posted:

This is a great package and we are using it to deliver some application to the local government. Unfortunately we got the following error message on shinyapps.io:

Warning: Error in loadNamespace: there is no package called ‘tinytex’

Do we have any alternative for this?

Thanks,
Liang

Guest *Mu Yang* @ 2018-11-02 14:00:53 originally posted:

Hi Yihui, I installed the tinytex on my desktop in the office. Due to firewall, tinytex can't download the necessary latex package automatically. Can you please let me know how to add/change proxy for tinytex? Below are the messages
Many thanks,

No connection to the internet.
Unable to download the checksum of the remote TeX Live database,
but found a local copy so using that.

You may want to try specifying an explicit or different CTAN mirror;
see the information and examples for the -repository option at
http://tug.org/texlive/doc/install-tl.html
(or in the output of install-tl --help).

tlmgr.pl: package repository http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet (not verified: unknown)
[1/4, ??:??/??:??] install: beamer [161k]
TLPDB::_install_package: downloading did not succeed
[2/4, 00:46/03:47] install: ms [6k]
TLPDB::_install_package: downloading did not succeed
[3/4, 01:32/07:19] install: pgf [614k]
TLPDB::_install_package: downloading did not succeed
[4/4, 02:18/02:20] install: xcolor [17k]
TLPDB::_install_package: downloading did not succeed
tlmgr.pl: package log updated: C:/Users/muyang/AppData/Roaming/TinyTeX/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
Warning: running command '"pdflatex" -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode "C:UsersmuyangAppDataLocalTempRtmpKErS5Kfile281c7c65524.tex"' had status 1
tlmgr search --file --global "/beamer.cls"
! LaTeX Error: File `beamer.cls' not found.

Guest *GeoRgi* @ 2018-11-26 07:29:19 originally posted:

Hi Yihui, I install TinyTex and now when trying to knit it returns :
! LaTeX Error: Option clash for package xcolor.

Error: Failed to compile MOOC.tex. See MOOC.log for more info.
Execution halted
I have in r chunk library(kableExtra)- it seems to be the culprit.
I got also another problem, it seems to ignore the custom CSS file, the same report that I executed before with MikTex worked just fine with customisation, now I get it with a default font.

Guest *Aliakbar Akbaritabar* @ 2019-01-19 12:43:31 originally posted:

Dear Yihui,
thank you for all the amazing things you are doing for the R community with *down ecosystem.

I was trying to get rid of an older version of TexLive on Mac and instead install your "tinytex" as described above. Midway I forgot something and when I returned I pushed "knit" to PDF while forgetting I still don't have tinytex installed.

The warning message was like this:
"No TeX installation detected (TeX is required to create PDF output). You should install a recommended TeX distribution for your platform:

Windows: MiKTeX (Complete) - http://miktex.org/2.9/setup
(NOTE: Be sure to download the Complete rather than Basic installation)

Mac OS X: TexLive 2013 (Full) - http://tug.org/mactex/
(NOTE: Download with Safari rather than Chrome strongly recommended)

Linux: Use system package manager"

Since, thanks to you, I have successfully used tinytex on Windows and Mac (on Linux I don't remember if I had this or the package manger latex version), so I would suggest to change the above warning to be based on "tinytex", no?

Guest *Abhijit Sanyal* @ 2019-01-21 23:24:02 originally posted:

Hi Yihui,
Thanks to you for all your hard work. I attended your bookdown talk at the recent RStudio conference and was inspired to learn about bookdown. However I have not been able to execute the minimal example (index.Rmd) in the book. Here are the error messages and other diagnostics: (On a Windows machine). I noticed that xelatex is not in the TinyTex folder but it can be called and installed if required. I have read most of the threads online and have installed and re-installed bookdown and tinytex multiple times using your recommended approach.
I do not have MiKtex installed as per your advice.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Error: Failed to compile bookdown-demo.tex.
In addition: Warning message:
In system2(..., stdout = FALSE, stderr = FALSE) : '"xelatex"' not found
Execution halted

Exited with status 1.

My session Info is as follows:
R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)

Matrix products: default

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

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

other attached packages:
[1] rmarkdown_1.11.3 tinytex_0.10 bookdown_0.9

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.5.2 htmltools_0.3.6 tools_3.5.2 yaml_2.2.0 Rcpp_1.0.0 knitr_1.21 xfun_0.4
[8] digest_0.6.18 evaluate_0.12

>tinytex:::is_tinytex()
[1] TRUE

It seems that xelatex cannot be found
Sys.which('xelatex')
xelatex
""
> Sys.getenv("PATH")
[1] "C:Program FilesRR-3.5.2binx64;C:WINDOWSsystem32;C:WINDOWS;C:WINDOWSSystem32Wbem;C:WINDOWSSystem32WindowsPowerShellv1.0;C:Program Files (x86)Micro FocusRUMBA;C:Program Files (x86)Micro FocusRUMBASystem;C:Usersjj8aysAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsApps;C:Usersjj8aysAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython37-32;C:Usersjj8aysAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython37-32Scripts;"
> tinytex:::texlive_root()
Error in get(name, envir = asNamespace(pkg), inherits = FALSE) :
object 'texlive_root' not found
> tinytex:::win_app_dir('TinyTeX')
[1] "C:Usersjj8aysAppDataRoaming/TinyTeX"

dir.exists("C:Usersjj8aysAppDataRoamingTinyTeX")
[1] TRUE
> system2("C:Usersjj8aysAppDataRoamingTinyTeXbinwin32tlmgr", c("path", "add"))
Use of uninitialized value in bitwise or (|) at C:Usersjj8aysAppDataRoamingTinyTeXtexmf-distscriptstexlivetlmgr.pl line 1482.

Guest *boyoungzheng* @ 2019-02-06 21:20:11 originally posted:

Can anyone transfer this good package to homebrew?

Guest *Andrew* @ 2019-02-14 10:27:27 originally posted:

Hello Yihui, i have an issue when i generate a pdf document. using R markdown having a name with special character e.g schön.pdf. A pdf file is generated with 0 kb but when i change the name to "schlon" it is easily generated.

Guest *Na Ye* @ 2019-02-24 05:37:34 originally posted:

@@yihui:disqus , I'm trying to install tinytex, but got the following error message.

tinytex::install_tinytex()
trying URL 'http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl.zip'
length 24073463 bytes (23.0 MB)
downloaded 23.0 MB

downloaded 0 bytes

Error in download.file(url, output, ..., method = method) :
no function to return from, jumping to top level
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(url, output, ..., method = method) :
URL 'https://github.com/yihui/tinytex/raw/master/tools/pkgs-custom.txt': status was 'SSL connect error'
Please restart your R session and IDE (if you are using one, such as RStudio or Emacs) and check if tinytex:::is_tinytex() is TRUE.

Is something down or I made some mistakes? Thanks a lot in advance.

Guest *joachimr* @ 2019-03-03 14:11:47 originally posted:

Thanks so much for providing this incredibly useful tool! I get the following error message now whenever tinytex is trying to install something:

TeX Live 2018 is frozen forever and will no
longer be updated. This happens in preparation for a new release.

How can I redirect it to the new TeX Live 2019 server?

Thanks for your support!

Guest *Rander Ciph* @ 2019-03-08 19:35:47 originally posted:

Hello Yihui, hope your doing fine. I am facing a problem with special characters like "&" and "_" to be passed in a latex environment in order to generate a pdf document using R markdown. I have 2 files , a R file and a Rmd file. i have my data in an excel sheet. The R script and Rmd are as follows

Data

Id company var1 var2 var3
1 Al & Sons 1 65 189
2 John_Doe 3 66 56
3 Al & Sons 1 65 544
4 Al & Sons 2 66 1121
5 John_Doe 2 65 55
6 Jane Doe 2 66 222
7 Jane Doe 3 66 112
8 Jane Doe 3 65 448
9 Jane Doe 2 63 115

R script

comp = "Al & Sons"
pth = "E:/Myexpopath"

render("D:/Myrmdpath/test.rmd", params = list(company = comp , path = pth ), output_file = sprintf('%s/test_rpt__%s.pdf', pth , comp ), encoding = "UTF-8")

Rmd file

classoption: landscape
fontsize: 4pt
output:
pdf_document:
latex_engine: lualatex
fig_height: 2
fig_width: 8
df_print: paged
params:
company: ""
path : ""
tables: yes

company <- params$company  
path <- params$path  

#load data
dat <- read_excel("comp.xlsx")

header-includes:

• usepackage{url}
• usepackage{fancyhdr}
• usepackage{lipsum}
• pagestyle{fancy}
• fancyhead[C]{r company}
• fancyfoot[R]{r format(Sys.time(), '%d.%m.%Y') page|thepage}
• renewcommand{headrulewidth}{1pt}
• renewcommand{footrulewidth}{1pt}
• usepackage[labelformat=empty]{caption}
• usepackage{courier}
• renewcommand*familydefault{ttdefault}
• usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE, comment = "", warning = F)  
options(width = 102)

suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(DT))  
suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(dplyr))  
suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(tidyr))  
suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(ggplot2))  
suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(gridExtra))  
suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(grid))  
suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(rmarkdown))

n_count <- filter(dat, company == comp) %>%  
summarise(  
'Total' = n(),  
) %>%  
gather(What, count) %>% data.frame

g_var1 <- dat %>%  
ggplot(aes(x = var1, y = ..prop.., group = 1)) +  
geom_bar(width = 0.4) + xlim(0.5, 4.5)

g_var2 <- dat %>%  
ggplot(aes(x = var2, y = ..prop.., group = 1)) +  
geom_bar(width = 0.4) + xlim(59, 66)

pagebreak
newpage
fancyhead[R]{Nonsense}
setlength{headsep}{1cm}

knitr:::kable(list(n_count), booktabs = TRUE, linesep =""  
,caption = 'Table')  
grid.arrange(g_var1, g_var2, ncol = 2,  
top = textGrob('plot', gp = gpar(fontsize=16)))  

from the above if i pass c = "Al & Sons" and run the R script
it gives me an error
! Missing $ inserted.

$
l.106 newpage

Error: Failed to compile E:/Myexpopath/test_rpt__Al & Sons.tex

Guest *Satyendra Tomar* @ 2019-06-20 22:15:01 originally posted:

Hi Yihui,

First of all, thank you very much for putting your work in making his package, and sharing it with other users.

Trying to save some precious space on my litte SSD, I removed my TexLive installation (～4 GB). Moreover, the 2019 version was expected to take ～6.5 GB. Therefore, I looked for alternatives, and installed this sleek app.

After some easy installations of few packages, I could easily compile my latest beamer presentation. Here are some issues I'd like to share with you, and seek remedy.

(1) As I removed all the traces of TexLive (including TexLive Utility, TexShop, and LatexIt), I can't get tlmgr -gui working. It says perl-tk not found. Is it an issue of really perl, or missing TexLive utility?

(2) Texmaker didn't compile with using "times" package, however, while trying to install "times", TinyTex reports that it is installed, but TexMaker didn't find it! Do you've any idea? This was perfectly compiling with my previous TexLive installation.

(3) tlmgr install didn't find some packages, like "slashbox" and "algorithm". Moreover, it installed "media9" package successfully, but while compiling the tex document, this package searched for another package "ocgbase", which it didn't find.

Could you please help in resolving these issues?

Many thanks in advance.

Bests,
Satyen

Guest *Chris Sutherland* @ 2019-08-13 19:53:41 originally posted:

Its been a year since I compiled some lectures and am about to hand them off to someone. To my surprise, none of the rmarkdown files compiled, and they give this error:

! LaTeX Error: Missing begin{document}.

Error: Failed to compile Doing-Science.tex. See https://yihui.name/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See Doing-Science.log for more info.
Execution halted

Whats wierd is that I get this message even if delete all but the first title of the first slide (i.e., a blank beamer pdf basically). If i try a fresh file, everything works as intended.

I actually done want to use tinytex at all and didn't think i was until i got this tinytex specific error message. Any ideas what is going on?

Guest *JUSTIN OLSON* @ 2019-08-25 15:13:05 originally posted:

thank you so much for this solution. I spend hours trying to install MiKTeX 2.9 on Windows 10 with no success. This solution took 5 minutes and everything is working flawlessly. It should be listed as an install options in the output notes when you try to run knit without the proper pre-reqs.

访客 *Zichang Xu* @ 2019-08-31 06:13:22 写道：

Hi I am using Rstudio and get this error when knitting to PDF.

processing file: R-Module-1-Practice-Problem-Solution.Rmd
|............. | 20%
ordinary text without R code

|.......................... | 40%
label: setup (with options)
List of 1
$ include: logi FALSE

|....................................... | 60%
ordinary text without R code

|.................................................... | 80%
label: unnamed-chunk-1
|.................................................................| 100%
ordinary text without R code

output file: http://R-Module-1-Practice-Problem-Solution.knit.md

"C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS http://R-Module-1-Practice-Problem-Solution.utf8.md --to latex --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+ascii_identifiers+tex_math_single_backslash --output R-Module-1-Practice-Problem-Solution.tex --template "c:RR-3.6.1libraryrmarkdownrmdlatexdefault-1.17.0.2.tex" --highlight-style tango --pdf-engine pdflatex --variable graphics=yes --lua-filter "c:/R/R-3.6.1/library/rmarkdown/rmd/lua/pagebreak.lua" --variable "geometry:margin=1in" --variable "compact-title:yes"
错误: Failed to compile R-Module-1-Practice-Problem-Solution.tex. See https://yihui.name/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips.
此外: Warning messages:
1: In system2(..., stdout = if (use_file_stdout()) f1 else FALSE, stderr = f2) :
'"pdflatex"' not found
2: In system2(...) : '"pdflatex"' not found
停止执行

No LaTeX installation detected (LaTeX is required to create PDF output). You should install a LaTeX distribution for your platform: https://www.latex-project.org/get/

If you are not sure, you may install TinyTeX in R: tinytex::install_tinytex()

Otherwise consider MiKTeX on Windows - http://miktex.org

MacTeX on macOS - https://tug.org/mactex/
(NOTE: Download with Safari rather than Chrome strongly recommended)

Linux: Use system package manager

Guest *Viveka Kumar* @ 2019-08-31 11:32:25 originally posted:

maketexslr.exe has a virus named IDP.ALEXA.51
It happened when I tried running the batch file install-windows.bat for windows.

Guest *Bruno* @ 2019-09-04 03:15:17 originally posted:

hi, i am new R user and i am having problem when i try to build a .pdf file.

i have this msg:

Sorry, but C: Users Bruno AppData Local Programs MIKTEX ~ 1.9 miktex bin x64 pdflatex.exe did not succeed.

The hopefully log file contains the information to get MiKTeX going again:

C: Users Bruno AppData Local MiKTeX 2.9 miktex log pdflatex.log
Error: Failed to compile answers.tex. See https://yihui.name/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips.
Also: Warning message:
In readLines (log): Incomplete end line found in 'replies.log'
Execution stopped

i have no idea what i have to do. I've already tried to reinstall de R.

Thanks for your help

Guest *ontheball_offthewall* @ 2019-09-08 01:37:20 originally posted:

Hi YiHui,
Great package but I am having the strangest error. All my markdown presentations work fine on rstudio.cloud. When I work local with TinyTex, inserttotalframenumber is not calculated correctly and stuck at 1. So page numbers come out as 1/1,2/1 and so forth. I installed the lastpage package as well as all other packages. Any idea what this could be? Thanks.

Guest *ontheball_offthewall* @ 2019-09-08 02:12:50 originally posted:

Very interesting question here
https://community.rstudio.com/t/slider-number-issues-with-beamer-presentations/38418

Guest *James Kilfiger* @ 2019-10-07 15:58:47 originally posted:

I have an error message on installation:

C:UsersjkAppDataLocalTemp>cd install-tl-*
Can't load 'C:/Users/jk/AppData/Local/Temp/install-tl-20191007/tlpkg/tlperl/site/lib/auto/Win32/API/API.dll' for module Win32::API: load_file:A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed at C:UsersjkAppDataLocalTempinstall-tl-20191007tlpkgtlperllib/XSLoader.pm line 93.
at C:/Users/jk/AppData/Local/Temp/install-tl-20191007/tlpkg/tlperl/site/lib/Win32/API.pm line 86.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Users/jk/AppData/Local/Temp/install-tl-20191007/tlpkg/tlperl/site/lib/Win32/API.pm line 87.
Compilation failed in require at C:/Users/jk/AppData/Local/Temp/install-tl-20191007/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLWinGoo.pm line 133.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Users/jk/AppData/Local/Temp/install-tl-20191007/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLWinGoo.pm line 148.
Compilation failed in require at C:/Users/jk/AppData/Local/Temp/install-tl-20191007/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPDB.pm line 102.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Users/jk/AppData/Local/Temp/install-tl-20191007/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPDB.pm line 102.
Compilation failed in require at C:UsersjkAppDataLocalTempinstall-tl-20191007install-tl line 145.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:UsersjkAppDataLocalTempinstall-tl-20191007install-tl line 145.

This seems to be deep in the perl, or dll-hell depths of tex-live. I'm hoping that someone can recognise the symptoms here and suggest a quick solution, or identify this as the sort of problem that doesn't disappear quickly or without administrator support.

Guest *Mohammed Atari* @ 2019-10-10 14:01:09 originally posted:

Dear Yihui Xie,

Thank you for developing and maintaining tinytex, it is indeed a very useful package.

I installed tinytex the usual way using the following command:

• install.packages("tinytex")

I then called the library using the following command:

• library(tinytex)

And finally I typed:

• tinytex::install_tinytex()

However, I got the following error message:

trying URL 'http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl.zip'
length 22534078 bytes (21.5 MB)
downloaded 21.5 MB

downloaded 0 bytes

Error in download.file(url, output, ..., method = method) :
no function to return from, jumping to top level

I would be grateful if you could advise on how to resolve the issue.

Best wishes,Mohammed.

Guest *Roger Koenker* @ 2019-12-11 18:32:01 originally posted:

Bravo Yihui! for yet another wonderful contribution to R and the greater world beyond. Having just for fun installed R on my new Raspberry pi 4, I thought to myself now it would be nice to have latex, but really, all of texlive, probably not, so this was exactly what was needed. It installed for me immediately and "just worked."

Guest *Daniel Rodríguez* @ 2020-01-14 09:58:39 originally posted:

Hello,
I have been truing to install TinyTex for a lot of hours, but I always get these warning messages:
Warning messages:
1: In download.file(url, output, ..., method = method) :
URL 'http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl.zip': status was 'Couldn't connect to server'
2: In download.file(url, output, ..., method = method) :
URL 'https://yihui.org/gh/tinytex/tools/pkgs-custom.txt': status was 'Couldn't connect to server'
3: In download.file(url, output, ..., method = method) :
URL 'https://yihui.org/gh/tinytex/tools/tinytex.profile': status was 'Couldn't connect to server'
4: In file.remove("TinyTeX/install-tl.log") :
cannot remove file 'TinyTeX/install-tl.log', reason 'No such file or directory'
Can you give me some advices to complete the install properly?
Thanks in advanced.

Guest *Tristan Tran* @ 2020-01-27 22:36:29 originally posted:

Hi Yihui,
I am new to R Markdown and TinytTex. I posted a question on StackOverflow below, wondering if you could help out.

Guest *Lucy* @ 2020-03-02 00:01:56 originally posted:

Hi Yihui,

I encountered some problems when I was trying to uninstall the "TinyTex". I installed it by chance--writing this command in my Rmd file: "tinytex::tlmgr_update() # update LaTeX packages", when I was debugging, however, in order to recover the compiled file into the original look, I wanna uninstall it. But when I wrote the commands you recommended for on MacOS, there were three errors popped out:

destination /usr/local/bin not writable, no removal of links done!

destination /usr/local/share/info not writable, no removal of links done!

man symlink destination (/usr/local/share/man) not writable, cannot remove symlinks.

remove of symlinks had 3 error(s), see messages above.

tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting

By the way, there are TexLive 2019 and TexStudio on my Mac...I had no idea how to fix it. Do you have any suggestion on it? Thanks so much!

Best regards,

Lucy

Guest *armando islas martinez* @ 2020-03-02 02:26:07 originally posted:

please i need help.

I have tried to install tiny tex with tinytex::install_tinytex(),
and this appears:

Cannot open ./TinyTeX/texmf-dist/ls-R to write.
mktexlsr: Done.
running updmap-sys --nohash ...C:UsersNOBLES～1AppDataLocalTempRtmpIhRE4Yinstall-tl-20200301install-tl: updmap-sys --nohash failed (status 53):
failed
re-running mktexlsr ./TinyTeX/texmf-var ./TinyTeX/texmf-config ...
mktexlsr: Updating ./TinyTeX/texmf-var/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updated ./TinyTeX/texmf-var/ls-R.
Cannot open ./TinyTeX/texmf-config/ls-R to write.
mktexlsr: Done.
pre-generating all format files, be patient...
running fmtutil-sys --no-error-if-no-engine=luahbtex,luajittex,mfluajit --no-strict --all ...C:UsersNOBLES～1AppDataLocalTempRtmpIhRE4Yinstall-tl-20200301install-tl: fmtutil-sys --no-error-if-no-engine=luahbtex,luajittex,mfluajit --no-strict --all failed (status 53):

C:UsersNOBLES～1AppDataLocalTempRtmpIhRE4Yinstall-tl-20200301install-tl: errors in installation reported above

Summary of warnings:
C:UsersNOBLES～1AppDataLocalTempRtmpIhRE4Yinstall-tl-20200301install-tl: updmap-sys --nohash failed (status 53):
C:UsersNOBLES~1AppDataLocalTempRtmpIhRE4Yinstall-tl-20200301install-tl: fmtutil-sys --no-error-if-no-engine=luahbtex,luajittex,mfluajit --no-strict --all failed (status 53):
failed

I have already uninstalled and installed R, and nothing works I hope you help me. Thanks thanks to everyone.

Guest *Matthew Thomas* @ 2020-04-24 20:28:50 originally posted:

Hi, at the university I work for, we're starting to get some reports of the two hard-coded TinyTeX download links (GitHub hosted) being blocked in China for some reason.

I made a very quick and dirty fix over here for the students reporting issues:
github.com/MattWThomas/tinytex

I'm just letting people know in case others are having issues and need a quick fix.

Guest *vt8235* @ 2020-06-03 20:39:09 originally posted:

220 MB is not tiny. I am really looking for something that can do it in 20-50. :) That would be tiny. If 220MB is tiny how much is a full Latex distro? damn

Guest *kobayashi maru* @ 2020-06-09 12:50:03 originally posted:

Hi Yihui, I have gone through numerous blogs and installation methods, however I still get error when installing tinytex. error is as follows:

Error in download.file(url, output, ..., method = method) :
cannot open URL 'https://github.com/yihui/tinytex/raw/master/tools/texlive.profile'

I am using windows 10. i also tried the code

devtools::install_github('yihui/tinytex')
tinytex:::install_prebuilt()

any guidance on how to deal with this error?

thanks
hiren

Guest *Eric* @ 2020-06-28 17:46:53 originally posted:

Thank you so much Yihui. I really appreciate your work on this package.

Guest *Stammering Mathematician* @ 2020-07-14 10:11:28 originally posted:

Hello. How do I actually use it after installing. I am on Linux OS. What command should I write in Terminal.

Guest *Alex* @ 2020-07-24 18:45:06 originally posted:

How to update TinyTeX ? specifically on Mac OS X? if I get a new installation, things are deleted from the tlmgr settings and it's rather annoying.

Guest *Guilherme Parreira* @ 2020-07-29 20:45:18 originally posted:

Hi There! I installed the package tinytex via terminal on my Ubuntu 20.04

When I compiled my file to PDF, it appears **"! LaTeX Error: File memoir.cls' not found."** So, I tried tlmgr search --global --file "/memoir.cls"`
And I got:

(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
/usr/bin/tlmgr: unexpected return value from verify_checksum: -5

when I tried tlmgr update --self --all`` I also got the same error.
What should I do?

Guest *Guilherme Parreira* @ 2020-12-14 18:31:04 originally posted:

Hi! After compiling my .Rmd file to PDF Beamer via tinytex, I get:

LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.
Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run Biber on the file:
(biblatex) teste_pres
(biblatex) and rerun LaTeX afterwards.

So, how can I (re)run Biber on the file teste_pres?
I saw on internet that they had to install another lib. But I am sure that there is a easier way from tinytex

Guest *Alyssa* @ 2020-12-30 02:54:10 originally posted:

Hi - I am trying to install TinyTex for a class. I get an install error on the console that I see is well documented online, but when I go to use the sudo chown command in the terminal tab and enter my correct system password I am getting an error that says:

chown: whomami: illegal user name

I have not seen this covered on any other forum, any idea how to get around this? I've tried creating a new user on my Mac OS and get the same error regardless.

Guest *Rafael Peixoto* @ 2021-02-11 22:16:07 originally posted:

Hi,
I've installed tinyTex and everything looks fine. I'm able to generate a PDF file with tinytex::pdflatex().
But when I try to "Compile PDF" in a .Rnw document, Rstudio tries to compile with MikTex, which is also installed in my computer.
How can I set Rstudio to use tinytex instead of MikTex. I don't wanna unistall Miktex because I use it with TexStudio.

Thanks.

访客 *Kimki Pang* @ 2021-03-22 03:26:28 写道：

学长，我安装了tinytex, 但是还是没法生成pdf. 请问这是什么原因啊？
Sorry, but C:UsersKKAppDataLocalProgramsMiKTeXmiktexbinx64pdflatex.exe did not succeed.

! The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again:

! C:UsersKKAppDataLocalMiKTeXmiktexlogpdflatex.log

Error: LaTeX failed to compile STAT-Project1-KK.tex. See

@JinjiPang

Guest *adaq* @ 2021-03-28 20:52:42 originally posted:

I installed tinytex with the following command
wget -qO- "<https://yihui.org/tinytex/install-bin-unix.sh>" | sh
and now I see .TinyTex in my home directory. How do I actually install into R? Right now my R has an old TinyTex package (0.12) and I need to update it to 0.16

Guest *Ivan* @ 2021-09-05 10:32:00 originally posted:

Hi Yihui

If we have full latex installation before we install R/Rstudio/bookdown, do we still need to install tinytex in R?

Let say that on mac I have already TeX Live installation that I use frequently; do I still have to install tinytex for R/RStudio/bookdown?

Guest *Hanqi Luo* @ 2021-09-09 18:50:08 originally posted:

Hi I got an error message trying to use "escape = F"

! Misplaced noalign.
midrule ->noalign
{ifnum 0=`}fi @aboverulesep =aboverulesep global @...
l.196 end{tabular}}

Error: LaTeX failed to compile test.tex. See https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See test.log for more info.
Execution halted

Could you please help me debug?

Thank you

Guest *Abbas* @ 2022-01-31 20:25:53 originally posted:

after including library(kableExtra) to the rmarkdown, i recive the following message which crashes the markdown:
! LaTeX Error: File `multirow.sty' not found.
even after running the following code still the problem persists:
tinytex::tlmgr_install("multirow")

I use Rstudio on my both Mac and Windows (files on the cloud).

While I am able to render my Quarto file (a journal article draft) into a pdf on my Mac, it does not render on Windows. The error message is as follows:

"running xelatex - 1
This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-0.999993 (TeX Live 2021/W32TeX) (preloaded format=xelatex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode

updating tlmgr

updating existing packages
finding package for setspace.sty

compilation failed- no matching packages
LaTeX Error: File `setspace.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Enter file name:
! Emergency stop.
<read *>

l.14 \usepackage
{iftex}^^M
"

The following and other related advice did not work:

tinytex::parse_install(here::here("myfile.log")).

$ tlmgr search --global --file "/setspace.sty"
psnfss:
texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/setspace.sty

How can I work around this?

Hi Yihui,

我是tinytex的mac用户，最近我想为公司的一台电脑安装tinytex，但是公司非常注重数据的安全问题，目前电脑并没有也不允许连接网络，我已经通过password protected的USB成功安装了R和Rstudio，和里面需要的必要package， 但是tinytex是一个LaTex的distribution，你提供的下载和安装方式要么是通过R studio或者通过bash或者powershell联网实现，想问一下我能否在自己的mac上下载windows版本的TinyTex，然后通过USB转移进去后离线安装么？可以提供一下我这种情况的详细教程吗？公司电脑是windows版本

提前感谢你的解答！

你好，我不确定这个问题是否应该问您，但找不到地方问。

我在Rstudio上使用Rmarkdown，想输出pdf文档于是选用了tinytex。但是目前的状况是：
(1)我在日本工作，文档里有日语，网上查了下，得知通过“tinytex::tlmgr_install("ipaex")”安装IPAex字体即可（实际上我自己的私人电脑也试过可行）
(2)然而我公司因为安全问题无法连外网，自然也无法通过上面方法安装

于是想知道有没有什么方法（就像您提供的本地安装tinytex的方法那样）可以本地安装这个字体吗？

如果您不了解的话我就干干脆脆放弃了，也问题不大。
谢谢！