install.packages("quarto")
install.packages("knitr")
install.packages("here")
install.packages("tidyverse")
install.packages("broom")
install.packages("fs")
install.packages("usethis")2 Installation
In this section, the aim is to have everyone setup with R, RStudio, and Quarto
2.1 Overview
- Duration 15 minutes
2.2 Questions
- How do I install R?
- How do I install Quarto?
- How do I install LaTeX in a sane way?
2.3 Software Setup
2.3.1 R
2.3.1.1 Windows
2.3.1.2 MacOS
2.3.1.3 Linux
2.3.2 RStudio
2.4 Quarto
To ensure you are up to date, run the following script to install the packages.
2.5 A note on PDF
Quarto documents can be compiled to PDF, which is a great feature. In order to convert the documents to PDF, they use a software called LaTeX (pronounced la-tek or lay-tek).
Installing LaTeX is thankfully handled when you install Quarto, as Quarto includes a built-in Latexmk engine.
2.5.1 PDF / LaTeX Pain
Installing LaTeX can be a pain, but thankfully Yihui Xie has put a lot of time and energy into making an easier way to install it - tinytex. tinytex is an R package that installs a sane, lightweight (<200Mb) version of LaTeX.
If you are running into issues rendering a PDF, you can try the following:
tinytex::install_tinytex()If you get the following error, this is good! As it means that TeX has already been installed:
Error: Detected an existing tlmgr at /usr/local/bin/tlmgr. It seems TeX Live has been installed (check tinytex::tinytex_root()). You have to uninstall it, or use install_tinytex(force = TRUE) if you are sure TinyTeX can override it (e.g., you are a PATH expert or installed TinyTeX previously).Alternatively, you can run the following from the terminal
quarto install tinytex
# follow the prompts from here2.5.2 Problem solving with LaTeX
If you have any problems with installing tinytex, I recommend you check out the tinytex FAQ page.
2.6 Test Script
You should be able to run the following code on your machine
library(quarto)
library(knitr)
library(here)
library(tidyverse)
library(broom)
library(fs)
library(usethis)