rstudio/tinytex
A lightweight, cross-platform, portable, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
91/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 77
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 79
- age_days: 3212
- days_rel: 78
- days_push: 14
- n_releases_24m: 8
Adoption not part of the score
1152 stars · 127 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
TinyTeX is a lightweight, portable LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live that installs only needed packages, paired with an R package providing wrapper functions for compiling LaTeX and R Markdown to PDF. It automatically installs missing LaTeX packages, making PDF compilation nearly invisible to R users.
Use cases
- compile r markdown to pdf
- install a lightweight latex distribution
- automatically install missing latex packages
- compile latex documents without admin privileges
- set up latex in ci pipelines
- run latex from a usb drive
When to choose
- you are an R or R Markdown user who needs PDF output without managing LaTeX
- you want a small, portable TeX Live install without sudo
- you need LaTeX in CI or cloud environments with minimal download size
When to avoid
- you need the full set of thousands of LaTeX packages installed locally
- you work outside R and dislike manually installing missing packages
- you already maintain a full TeX Live or MiKTeX installation
Facets
library · maturity active
developer-tools documentation pdf developer-tools documentation pdf cross-platform windows cross-platform latex texlive r-package pdf-generation rmarkdown linux macos r
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex · fetched 2026-08-28 · 540f2925b493
- homepage: https://yihui.org/tinytex/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5e8132e75053
- site_page: https://yihui.org/tinytex/faq · fetched 2026-08-29 · b13ecfae972d
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| rstudio/tinytex | main | 91 |
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