Install tinytex on appveyor for R
1 min readSep 14, 2019
This took me a long time to figure out.
Points to note:
- By default, appveyor.yml scripts don’t understand double quote marks. So start everything with cmd: and it will be fine.
- Appveyor has a version of xz that doesn’t play nicely with tlmgr. So set the enviroment variable TEXLIVE_PREFER_OWN to 1, so tlmgr will use its own built-in copy of xz.
Here’s the relevant chunks of appveyor.yml, showing how to get tinytex installed and download a package. This assumes that tinytex is a dependency listed in your DESCRIPTION file.
environment:
...
TEXLIVE_PREFER_OWN: 1...build_script:
- travis-tool.sh install_deps
- cmd: Rscript -e "tinytex::install_tinytex()"
- cmd: Rscript -e "tinytex::tlmgr_install('latexdiff')"
- cmd: Rscript -e "tinytex::tlmgr_path('add')"