Recently I received an email from CRAN, from which I learned about an accident related to TinyTeX. CRAN requested me to make a change to avoid such accidents in the future, and I’d like to mention this change and also announce another upcoming change in this post.

Preventing accidental installation of TinyTeX

For the sake of convenience, the R function tinytex::install_tinytex() would not ask for user’s confirmation before installing TinyTeX. I assume that users know what they are …