Click on the MacTeX.pkg link to download. You can download the latest version of MacTeX. If for some reason TinyTeX does not work on your Mac computer then you can try to install MacTeX instead. The R companion package tinytex can help you automatically install missing LaTeX packages when compiling LaTeX or R Markdown documents to PDF. TinyTeX is a lightweight, portable, cross-platform, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution. Next you can install the rmarkdown package in RStudio using the following code:

If you have RStudio installed there is no need to install Pandoc separately because its bundled with RStudio. If you do not have RStudio IDE installed, you will also have to install Pandoc. RStudio is not required but recommended, because it makes it easier to work with R Markdown. This guide assumes you have already installed R and the RStudio IDE. #Installing R Markdown on a compter running Mac OSX With the rmarkdown package, RStudio/Pandoc, and LaTeX, you should be able to compile most R Markdown documents. If at all possible we recommend that you use TinyTex.

Installing MiKTeX is pretty straight forward, but it can sometimes be a pain to get it to play nicely with RStudio.

You can download the latest distribution of MiKTeX. An alternative option would be to install MiKTeX instead. Install.packages( 'tinytex') tinytex :: install_tinytex() # install TinyTeX

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