Why "Knit to pdf" in RMarkdown throws error?

Question

I have installed tinytex package in R. While using R Markdown, I can not knit to pdf, even though I can knit to html.

I have tried knit to html, that works. But knit to pdf shows error.

I get the following error message:

Error: Failed to compile New_Rmamrkdown.tex. See https://yihui.name/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See New_Rmamrkdown.log for more info.
In addition: Warning message: package 'tidyverse' was built under R version 3.5.3
Execution halted

Answer 1

It requires an additional third party software(latex), there are various softwares to do the task. Try this miktex . I tried in my Ubuntu OS with RStudio, it works good. Install this package, and please mention whether it works for you!

Answer 2

Step 1: To fix this issue, go to Tools ---> Global Options ---> Sweave in R Studio.

• Then under Typeset LaTex into PDF using select XeLaTex .
• Under LaTex Editing and Compilation , tick "Use tinytex when compiling.tex files.
• Click Apply and Ok .

Step 2: In R Markdown, install tinytex in an R chunk

```{r}
tinytex::install_tinytex(force = TRUE)
library(tinytex)

Step 3: In the header block, type the output as:

output:
  pdf_document:
    latex_engine: xelatex

Select the Knit to PDF and your document should knit correctly.

If any of these help, kindly upvote it so more people can see the solution that worked. Cheers!!!