I use RStudio and started writing Rmarkdown documents to knit them into HTML pages and PDFs.
I tried installing TexLive but it failed when the astounding number of packages filled my limited remaining storage space (several GB).
I was wondering if anyone knew of a fairly straightforward way to get a minimal LaTeX install that includes the main packages needed to knit PDFs without errors on a Debian-based system?
I currently use Ubuntu 14.04, with RStudio 1.1.383, R 3.4.4, rmarkdown 1.9 and knitr 1.19.
Best Answer
Yes, I made TinyTeX exactly for that purpose: https://yihui.org/tinytex/ It is minimal and should work well for converting R Markdown to PDF by default.
Since you are a Ubuntu user, make sure to read FAQ 7: https://yihui.name/tinytex/faq/