Step 1: install tinytex

You can just run this in your console as you’ll only need to do this once

tinytex::install_tinytex() 

• TinyTex info
  
• This will take several minutes
• Ignore the warning/error message, the installation should carry on even after the warning messages
• Needs to go through and install A LOT of packages
• When it’s complete, you will see a message that says “Please quit and reopen your R session and IDE (if you are using one, such as RStudio or Emacs) and check if tinytex:::is_tinytex() is TRUE.”

Step 2: Close and re-open RStudio to restart your session

Step 3: type tinytex:::is_tinytex() in your console and make sure it returns TRUE

Step 4: Check the knit drop down, what options do you see?

• Try knitting your file to pdf and word if you see those options (this will automatically change the code at the very top of your .Rmd file and that’s okay)
• You can also change the output manually to one of the following and then just click the knit button
• output: html_document
• output: pdf_document
• output: word_document

Step 5: If this work, double check your output file and make sure everything looks good (double check your gt table is there if you use the gt function, if it’s not try knitting to word instead of pdf)

Step 6: If this doesn’t still doesn’t work, trying installing a TeX/LaTeX system on your computer and then go through these steps again

• windows: You can download MiKTeX
• mac: You can download MacTeX
• select option to always install missing packages
• Restart Rstudio after this installation

tinytex::pdflatex('xxxx.tex')