R Observatory: Metrics for tinytex version 0.61

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tinytex

0.61Package record

Helper Functions to Install and Maintain TeX Live, and Compile LaTeX Documents

16packages dependsuggested by 55

13.5Mdownloads / year

7.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Helper functions to install and maintain the 'LaTeX' distribution named 'TinyTeX' (https://yihui.org/tinytex/), a lightweight, cross-platform, portable, and easy-to-maintain version of 'TeX Live'. This package also contains helper functions to compile 'LaTeX' documents, and install missing 'LaTeX' packages automatically.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("tinytex", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("rstudio/tinytex")

Development version from rstudio/tinytex. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-tinytex

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-tinytex

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-tinytex

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.61

READMEYes · 281 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · does not mention 0.61Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 12 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 36%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 55%
Help pages citing references: 25%

How these are measured

Downloads

13.5M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #52 · ~37K/day · ~1.1M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1M30 days

3.1M90 days

13.5M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on233.7K r2u174 autocran1.4M conda_forge20.4K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/tinytex ↗Organization: rstudio

1,175Stars

128Forks

28Open issues

2Open PRs

62Releases

1,026Commits

32Commit identities

latextexliver-package

1,026 commits · Last activity 2026-10-13 · +1% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.61.1, ahead of CRAN 0.61 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 81%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-12 · 1,0482026-10-20 · 1,175

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/tinytex on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (3)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templates

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Lint, format, editor (2)

VS CodeRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-03-05
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 12 by its own account · at least 10 crediting it in the message
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-05-21
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 1 from outside contributors, first on 2026-02-24, 1 from forks

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.81 commit · Sep 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tinytex adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 224 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: xfun 224 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

xfun

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testit rstudioapi

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

16direct

2,971indirect

Imports 16

Suggested by 55

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

rmarkdown bookdown rticles xdvir texPreview R3port worcs DQAstats texor ggdiagram rjtools genetic.algo.optimizeR exams.forge rqualify oldr glioblastomaEHRsData

Suggests, most downloaded first

and 23 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Yihui Xie

Fernando Cagua

Contributor · added in 0.4

Christophe Dervieux

Contributor · added in 0.31

Ethan Heinzen

Contributor · added in 0.14

Devon Ryan

Contributor · added in 0.31

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.45

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio, Inc.

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.19

RStudio, PBC

no longer listed · 0.20 to 0.44

Releases (61)

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-12-13
Total releases: 61 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 38 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("tinytex")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tinytex version 0.61 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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