Knitting error pdflatex: command not found

[johnlenord7]

QUICK Help im trying to knit and this error keeps popping up

output file: ECOM_.knit.md

! sh: pdflatex: command not found

Error: LaTeX failed to compile ECOM_.tex. See The R package tinytex - Helper Functions to Manage TinyTeX, and Compile LaTeX Documents - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉 for debugging tips. See ECOM_.log for more info.

[jrkrideau]

We probably need to see some code. We need a reproducible example (reprex)

FAQ: How to do a minimal reproducible example ( reprex ) for beginners

A minimal reproducible example consists of the following items: A minimal dataset, necessary to reproduce the issue The minimal runnable code necessary to reproduce the issue, which can be run on the given dataset, and including the necessary information on the used packages. Let's quickly go over each one of these with examples: Minimal Dataset (Sample Data) You need to provide a data frame that is small enough to be (reasonably) pasted on a post, but big enough to reproduce your issue. Let's say, as an example, that you are working with the iris data frame head(iris) #> Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species #> 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.…

[andresrcs]

@johnlenord7

sh: pdflatex: command not found

Have you installed a LaTeX distribution in your system? For rmarkdown, tinytex is recommended, you would need to install the R package and then the TinyTex distribution.

install.packages('tinytex')
tinytex::install_tinytex()