Setting up TeX for generating R Markdown reports

- [Narrator] LaTeX is a typesetting system … that R Markdown uses for generating PDF. … But in order to set up your computer ready to use LaTeX, … we first need to set up TeX on your machine. … So what's TeX? … TeX is the underlying typesetting system we use, … and LaTeX is a specific, and the most popular, … distribution of TeX. … It's very rare you'll ever hear folks talk about TeX, … everyone talks about LaTeX, which is why we're spending … some time being explicit about everything, … as some tutorials confuse this issue … of what TeX and LaTeX is. … The TeX distribution you want … depends on the operating system you're using. … MacTeX is a specialized version of LaTeX built for Macs. … Linux users are the only folks who actually get … to use LaTeX that's actually called LaTeX. … And Windows users have a very specific … distribution called MiKTex. … Before I show you where to go and get your installers, … please be warned: all tech distributions are at least … three gigabytes in size, …