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I'm running R in a locked-down environment (LSAF 5.3 by SAS Institute). I've found when creating PDF output that additional LaTeX packages need to be installed from time to time. That's not a problem on my local machine but for LSAF, I need to submit a special request and have an administrator do the install. So my question is, can someone recommend a general package or a set of packages that will be needed by rmarkdown? LSAF runs under Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6.

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TinyTeX binaries come with pre installed set of package.

You could use those directly, or they could serve as a way to know which packages we include in those binaries.

Those files are maintain by testing that different default output formats will work.

So in short, you'll have a good list already with those 2

Hope it helps

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Thanks for the help! An additional problem is that there's no internet access on LSAF. I found a partial solution by downloading "https://yihui.org/tinytex/TinyTeX.tar.gz" and running

tinytex:::install_prebuilt(pkg={path to TinyTeX.tar.gz})

That installs to my Workspace and allows me to create PDFs there. It also installs a /.TinyTeX folder in my home directory.

The next thing I'd like to do is install tinytex_prebuilt in a common area where all users have access. I have access to such a common area but not to the system files themselves. I assume a /.TinyTeX folder would be created there but what further steps would be necessary to make that available to a general user? Should I create an environment variable in R or add the path to /.TinyTeX to the path environment variable?

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Whoops! The new questions were all addressed in Frequently (?) Asked Questions - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉. Point 9 showed the way forward: Use copy_tinytex() to copy a TinyTex installation to the common area. use_tinytex() produced an error but also suggested adding options(tinytex.tlmgr.path = '[installed_location]/.TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr') to programs, which works just fine.

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