R Observatory: Metrics for tinytex version 0.60

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tinytex

0.60

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

69packages depend

13.5Mdownloads / year

7.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieFirst published 2017-12-1360 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 9.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-arm64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.06

7.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-07
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 281 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 55%
References docs: 25%

Downloads

13.5M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #53 · ~37K/day · ~1.1M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1M30 days

3.3M90 days

13.5M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on171.2K r2u114 autocran1.2M conda_forge4.4K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ rstudio/tinytex

1,146Stars

127Forks

26Open issues

3Open PRs

61Releases

1,020Commits

31Contributors

latextexliver-package

1,020 commits · Last activity 2026-07-07 · +0.7% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-14 · 1,0362026-08-14 · 1,146

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/tinytex on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (2)

VS CodeRStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: copilot on 2026-03-05

copilotclaude

Most recent: claude on 2026-05-21

Evidence

copilot: on 2026-03-05 · evidence A, PR · sole bot-author seen
claude: on 2026-05-21 · evidence D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

xfun

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testit rstudioapi

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

69direct

2,898indirect

and 21 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (4)

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

Copyright holders (2)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.45

Funders (1)

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

Package Timeline

60 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-12-13
Total releases: 60 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 35 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("tinytex")

Format

Xie, Y., Posit Software, PBC, Cagua, F., Dervieux, C., Heinzen, E., & Ryan, D. (2026). tinytex: Helper Functions to Install and Maintain TeX Live, and Compile LaTeX Documents (Version 0.60) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tinytex

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tinytex version 0.60 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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