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Failed to compile test.tex after successful TinyTeX installation via tinytex

I am trying to install TinyTeX via the convenient tinytex-package for R.

After having had a few issues with getting the installation to run smoothly on MacOS, the install_tinytex() function now executes properly and ends with the statement:

TinyTeX installed to /Users/X/Library/TinyTeX

However, when trying to execute pdflatex('test.tex') to test the installation, the console instead returns:

Error: Failed to compile test.tex

Apparently the installation did not execute properly. Am I missing something or isn't this supposed to work after a successful TinyTeX installation via tinytex?

The texput.log displays the following error message:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live 2018) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2018.11.2) 2 NOV 2018 14:47
entering extended mode
restricted \write18 enabled.
%&-line parsing enabled.
**test.tex
! Emergency stop.
<*> test.tex

Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 3 strings out of 494585
99 string characters out of 6174649 51539 words of memory out of
5000000 3743 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000 3640
words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000 14
hyphenation exceptions out of 8191 0i,0n,0p,1b,6s stack positions out
of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s

! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

Solution

  • The quoted error message indicates that there is no file test.tex in your current working directory. Either create a sample LaTeX file or use an existing file. If you do not have any LaTeX file available, you can try

    pdflatex('sample2e.tex')

    This will translate smaple2e.tex, which should be part of every LaTeX distribution.