Reputation: 1
Unable to install the `tinytex` package on Windows due to incompatible `xfun` version
I am encountering an issue while trying to install the R package tinytex. After made some investigations and I guess it might due to the dependency of xfun:
Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
namespace 'xfun' 0.43 is being loaded, but >= 0.48 is required
Calls: <Anonymous> ... namespaceImportFrom -> asNamespace -> loadNamespace
> install.packages("tinytex")
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:
https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/kevin/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.2’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependency ‘xfun’
There are binary versions available but the source versions are later:
binary source needs_compilation
xfun 0.43 0.49 TRUE
tinytex 0.50 0.54 FALSE
Binaries will be installed
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.2/xfun_0.43.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 483588 bytes (472 KB)
downloaded 472 KB
package ‘xfun’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\kevin\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp25kkFg\downloaded_packages
installing the source package ‘tinytex’
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/tinytex_0.54.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 35584 bytes (34 KB)
downloaded 34 KB
* installing *source* package 'tinytex' ...
** package 'tinytex' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
namespace 'xfun' 0.43 is being loaded, but >= 0.48 is required
Calls: <Anonymous> ... namespaceImportFrom -> asNamespace -> loadNamespace
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'tinytex'
* removing 'C:/Users/kevin/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.2/tinytex'
* restoring previous 'C:/Users/kevin/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.2/tinytex'
However I am unable to install xfun version 0.49 from CRAN， has anyone encountered a similar issue?
> xfun::session_info('xfun')
R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19044), RStudio 2024.4.2.764
Locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_Hong Kong SAR.utf8 LC_CTYPE=English_Hong Kong SAR.utf8
LC_MONETARY=English_Hong Kong SAR.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C
LC_TIME=English_Hong Kong SAR.utf8
Package version:
graphics_4.2.1 grDevices_4.2.1 stats_4.2.1 tools_4.2.1 utils_4.2.1 xfun_0.43
How can I successfully install tinytex(if possible, avoiding Rtools)? Honestly, I am not sure how to pinpoint my problem right now. My initial demand was to use pagedown to create a PDF file from markdown, but the creation failed. The render process prompted me to install tinytex, and then I try to investigate the issue following the guidance(https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging), finally I got lost in the errors....
Error: LaTeX failed to compile test.tex. See https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips.
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In system2(..., stdout = if (use_file_stdout()) f1 else FALSE, stderr = f2) :
'"pdflatex"' not found
2: In system2(...) : '"pdflatex"' not found
Execution halted
No LaTeX installation detected (LaTeX is required to create PDF output). You should install a LaTeX distribution for your platform: https://www.latex-project.org/get/
If you are not sure, you may install TinyTeX in R: tinytex::install_tinytex()
Otherwise consider MiKTeX on Windows - http://miktex.org
MacTeX on macOS - https://tug.org/mactex/
(NOTE: Download with Safari rather than Chrome _strongly_ recommended)
Linux: Use system package manager
My issue occurred during installation, but that problem seems to be about execution; I tried installing from CRAN, but it failed.
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