Please Help Me Test TinyTeX: A Small LaTeX Distribution - And An R Companion Package | /en/2017/12/test-tinytex/

yihui 2022-12-17 01:59:46

Please Help Me Test TinyTeX: A Small LaTeX Distribution - And An R Companion Package

https://yihui.org/en/2017/12/test-tinytex/

2 Comments

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 01:59:47

Guest *Nick Waters* @ 2017-12-05 12:32:09 originally posted:

Downloading now; so excited to try this! I'm working on an older laptop with a small HD, and would love a bloat-free LaTeX!

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 01:59:48

Guest *Ken Williams* @ 2019-08-08 22:50:16 originally posted:

Love this.

One oddity is that in most Linux distributions (at least, in the ones I've tried recently, CentOS & Ubuntu), installing R pulls in a very large TeX installation as a prerequisite. Do you have a recommendation for a smooth way to install an R that uses TinyTeX, without also having a big TeX installed first? Would it necessarily involve building R from source?

yihui 2022-12-17 01:59:49

Does FAQ 7 help? https://yihui.name/tinytex/faq/

Originally posted on 2019-08-09 01:28:25

giscus-bot 2022-12-17 01:59:50

Guest *Ken Williams* @ 2019-08-13 18:50:55 originally posted:

It looks like I was wrong about Ubuntu - it only has TeX stuff as "suggested" prereqs. So an Ubuntu Docker image with r-base installed is only 687MB, and then I can install TinyTex afterward for an addition of about 180MB. If I use the FAQ 7 technique, that shaves about 20MB off.

Also just confirmed that on Centos, installing the R package does also install TeX Live.