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A lightweight, cross-platform, portable, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live. TinyTeX is a custom LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live that is small in size but functions well in most cases, especially for R users. If you run into the problem of missing LaTeX packages, it should be super clear to you what you need to do (in fact, R users won’t need to do anything). You only install LaTeX packages you actually need. Currently, TinyTeX works best for R users. Other users can use it, too, it is just that missing LaTeX packages won’t be automatically installed, and you need to install them manually. Or you can go to the extreme to install all packages (see FAQ 3 for how), but remember there are thousands of them. Installing or running TinyTeX does not require admin privileges, which means you no longer need sudo or your IT. You can even run TinyTeX from a Flash drive.
Features
- TinyTeX-0 contains the infraonly scheme of TeX Live, without any LaTeX packages
- TinyTeX-1 contains about 90 LaTeX packages enough to compile common R Markdown documents (which was the original motivation of the TinyTeX project)
- TinyTeX contains more LaTeX packages requested by the community
- The list of packages may grow as time goes by, and the size of this bundle will grow correspondingly
- TinyTeX-2 contains the scheme-full scheme of TeX Live, which means all LaTeX packages that you could possibly install from CTAN
- Documentation available
- Examples available
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