![]() By comparison, TinyTeX’s pdflatex works just fine. Although it was not MiKTeX’s fault in this case, MiKTeX’s pdflatex fails when called via system2('pdflatex', 'test.tex', stdout = FALSE) in the R console in RStudio, even though system2('pdflatex', 'test.tex') succeeds, which is a really weird bug that took me a long time to realize. The rmarkdown bug #1285 once again confirmed that TinyTeX could be a better option than MiKTeX on Windows. Convenience outweighs the potential risk of letting certain software install (random) packages automatically in this case. What would you do otherwise in this case? Just stare at the screen, let LaTeX fail, and feel the miserable life? I don’t think you want to do that. However, from the viewpoint of users, I guess 99.99% of users will agree to install the missing packages. In the MiKTeX Console (you can find it from the Start menu on Windows), choose “Always install missing packages on-the-fly”:įrom the viewpoint of the developer, it is absolutely the right thing to do to ask users before installing the missing LaTeX packages. Texmaker includes unicode support, spell checking, auto-completion, code folding and a built-in pdf viewer with synctex support and continuous view mode. I’m still not sure why it could fail (I feel when MiKTeX is installed by the system admin, it may fail to pop up the dialog), but you can change the default setting and let MiKTeX install the missing LaTeX packages without asking. Texmaker is a free, modern and cross-platform LaTeX editor for linux, macosx and windows systems that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application. ![]() The default behavior of MiKTeX is to ask you whether you want to install missing LaTeX packages, but it may fail to pop up the dialog box to ask you in the first place. ![]() ![]() While debugging the rmarkdown issue #1285, I discovered that MiKTeX might fail to install missing LaTeX packages in certain cases. ![]()
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