When you compile a document to PDF through TinyTex LaTex, you may run into errors, especially with the .Rnw files and .tex. This is a script that automatically uses TinyTex to install the missing dependencies to compile an Rnw file..

installing_tinytex_dependencies_Rnw.R

library(tidyverse)

knitr::knit2pdf('path\to\file.Rnw')

file_log <- read_file('path\to\file.log')

error_text <- 
  file_log %>%
  stringr::str_split('\n') %>%
  unlist %>%
  enframe('Index', 'Text') %>%
  filter(str_detect(Text, '! LaTeX')) %>%
  pull(Text)

tinytex::parse_install(
  text = error_text
)