pagedown VS tinytex

See pagedown, you can add commands in your yaml that will automatically print a pdf when you knit.

I use pagedown all the time.

https://pagedown.rbind.io/

As alternative to latex you can also use pagedown https://github.com/rstudio/pagedown

# Based on https://github.com/analythium/quarto-docker-examples/blob/main/Dockerfile.base # Version number of Quarto to download and use ARG QUARTO_VERSION="1.4.529" ARG OS_USERNAME=quarto ARG UID=1000 ARG GID=1000 FROM eddelbuettel/r2u:20.04 # librsvg2-bin is to allow SVG conversion when rendering a PDF file # (will install the rsvg-view binary) RUN set -e -x && \ apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ pandoc \ pandoc-citeproc \ curl \ gdebi-core \ librsvg2-bin \ python3.8 python3-pip \ && apt-get clean \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* RUN set -e -x && \ install.r shiny jsonlite ggplot2 htmltools remotes renv knitr rmarkdown quarto # Download and install Quarto ARG QUARTO_VERSION RUN set -e -x && \ curl -o quarto-linux-amd64.deb -L https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/download/v${QUARTO_VERSION}/quarto-${QUARTO_VERSION}-linux-amd64.deb \ && gdebi --non-interactive quarto-linux-amd64.deb \ && rm -f quarto-linux-amd64.deb # Should be done for the user; won't work if done for root # (quarto will say that "tinytex is not installed") ARG OS_USERNAME ARG UID ARG GID RUN set -e -x && \ groupadd -g $GID -o "${OS_USERNAME}" && \ useradd -m -u $UID -g $GID -o -s /bin/bash "${OS_USERNAME}" USER "${OS_USERNAME}" # Install tools like tinytex to allow conversion to PDF RUN set -e -x && \ quarto install tool tinytex --update-path RUN set -e -x && \ printf "\e[0;105m%s\e[0;0m\n" "Run tlmgr update" \ && ~/.TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr update --self --all && \ ~/.TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-linux/fmtutil-sys --all # See https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex/issues/426 for explanation RUN set -e -x && \ printf "\e[0;105m%s\e[0;0m\n" "Run tlmgr install for a few tinyText packages (needed for PDF conversion)" \ && ~/.TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr install fvextra footnotebackref pagecolor sourcesanspro sourcecodepro titling USER root RUN set -e -x && \ mkdir -p /input USER "${OS_USERNAME}" WORKDIR /

Some of the others have mentioned other installs, but they can pull down a lot of packages which might not be ideal if it's not your PC (even the TexLive install is quite chonky.) I'd personally recommend: TinyTex.

See https://yihui.org/tinytex

that will install a lightweight latex distribution ready to render your rmarkdown documents. just restart rstudio and give a try after this process (for more stuff, see https://yihui.org/tinytex/ )

Have you tried the things mentioned at the link? https://github.com/yihui/tinytex/issues/24

There is the tinyTeX distribution which was designed for use with R, but can be used on its own as well. It's a subsetted version of TeX live and available from https://yihui.org/tinytex/

If you'd like to install only a small subset of packages, there are projects like TinyTeX.

Tinytex is a relative new Latex distribution by Yihui Xie from the R community. The distribution is tiny, less than 100mb, which is a great alternative to TexLive and MikTex for basic users.