diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 2845aad14..a105ffc26 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: tinytex
 Type: Package
 Title: Helper Functions to Install and Maintain 'TeX Live', and Compile 'LaTeX' Documents
-Version: 0.19.3
+Version: 0.19.4
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Yihui", "Xie", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"), email = "xie@yihui.name", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0645-5666")),
   person(family = "RStudio, PBC", role = "cph"),
diff --git a/R/install.R b/R/install.R
index 26e2c1874..95b9d3add 100644
--- a/R/install.R
+++ b/R/install.R
@@ -19,11 +19,14 @@
 #'   list of mirrors at \url{https://ctan.org/mirrors}.
 #' @param extra_packages A character vector of extra LaTeX packages to be
 #'   installed.
+#' @param add_path Whether to run the command \command{tlmgr path add} to add
+#'   the bin path of TeX Live to the system environment variable \var{PATH}.
 #' @references See the TinyTeX documentation (\url{https://yihui.org/tinytex/})
 #'   for the default installation directories on different platforms.
 #' @export
 install_tinytex = function(
-  force = FALSE, dir = 'auto', repository = 'ctan', extra_packages = NULL
+  force = FALSE, dir = 'auto', repository = 'ctan', extra_packages = NULL,
+  add_path = TRUE
 ) {
   if (!is.logical(force)) stop('The argument "force" must take a logical value.')
   check_dir = function(dir) {
@@ -135,7 +138,7 @@ install_tinytex = function(
         target = user_dir
       }
       bin = file.path(list.files(file.path(target, 'bin'), full.names = TRUE), 'tlmgr')
-      system2(bin, c('path', 'add'))
+      if (add_path) system2(bin, c('path', 'add'))
       if (length(extra_packages)) system2(bin, c('install', extra_packages))
       add_texmf(bin)
       message('TinyTeX installed to ', target)
@@ -184,7 +187,7 @@ install_tinytex = function(
           }
         }
         tlmgr(c('install', 'latex-bin', 'xetex', pkgs_custom, extra_packages))
-        tlmgr(c('path', 'add'))
+        if (add_path) tlmgr(c('path', 'add'))
         add_texmf(bin_tlmgr)
       })
       message('TinyTeX installed to ', target)
diff --git a/man/install_tinytex.Rd b/man/install_tinytex.Rd
index 29465df1d..dae8beb13 100644
--- a/man/install_tinytex.Rd
+++ b/man/install_tinytex.Rd
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ install_tinytex(
   force = FALSE,
   dir = "auto",
   repository = "ctan",
-  extra_packages = NULL
+  extra_packages = NULL,
+  add_path = TRUE
 )
 
 uninstall_tinytex(force = FALSE, dir = tinytex_root())
@@ -37,6 +38,9 @@ list of mirrors at \url{https://ctan.org/mirrors}.}
 \item{extra_packages}{A character vector of extra LaTeX packages to be
 installed.}
 
+\item{add_path}{Whether to run the command \command{tlmgr path add} to add
+the bin path of TeX Live to the system environment variable \var{PATH}.}
+
 \item{packages}{Whether to reinstall all currently installed packages.}
 
 \item{...}{Other arguments to be passed to \code{install_tinytex()} (note