Hey, I'm trying to make a super simple workflow to show some less technical users how to use R Studio to build TeX documents. One weird thing I'm running into is on a fresh install I typically don't have all the TeX packages we need there by default. So when a user clicks the "Compile PDF" button they get a failure because of missing packages.
However if they manually run
tinytex::pdflatex("C:\\sometexfile.tex")
If that file has dependencies then pdflatex
will automagically install missing dependencies. Then next time they can just click the button. Is there a setting I can change that will make the button just install dependencies? It's a bit clunky to have to one process the first time then a different process after that. Are there other ways I can work around this?