will R TinyTeX installation interfere with other LaTeX installations on my computer

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On my Windows computers I typically install MiKTeX, and on my Linux computers I typically install TeX Live. I write to R Markdown a lot and it is recommended I install the package called TinyTeX via install.packages("tinytex") then tinytex::install_tinytex() in the R Studio IDE.

Will this TinyTeX installation interfere with said installations of MikTeX and TeX Live and all associated programs (eg TeXstudio)? I don't want TinyTeX to break everything else on my computers associated with LaTeX. My Windows computers play well with MiKTeX and my Linux computers play well with TeX Live.

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The R package tinytex can use a installed MikTeX or TeXLive. So while I think there will be no interference, it is unnecessary to install TinyTeX. – Ralf Stubner

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I recommend that you uninstall your existing LaTeX distribution.

~ Yihui Xie in TinyTeX

I uninstalled MiKTeX when installing tinytex and haven't looked back, but I have co-workers who have tinytex and MiKTeX and have not experienced issues.