diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index af1423281..11b6d6210 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 ^codecov\.yml$
 ^TinyTeX\.zip$
 ^.github$
+^data-raw$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 16ccf15bb..ac6ad57f7 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ Description: Helper functions to install and maintain the 'LaTeX' distribution
   portable, and easy-to-maintain version of 'TeX Live'. This package also
   contains helper functions to compile 'LaTeX' documents, and install missing
   'LaTeX' packages automatically.
-Imports: xfun (>= 0.5)
+Imports: 
+    xfun (>= 0.5),
+    usethis (>= 1.6.1)
 Suggests: testit, rstudioapi
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 URL: https://github.com/yihui/tinytex
@@ -22,3 +24,5 @@ BugReports: https://github.com/yihui/tinytex/issues
 Encoding: UTF-8
 LazyData: true
 RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
+Depends: 
+    R (>= 2.10)
diff --git a/R/jup_pkgs.R b/R/jup_pkgs.R
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d601a3ffb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/R/jup_pkgs.R
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#' Additional tinytex packages needed for rendering of PDFs in Jupyter
+#'
+#' These 16 TexLive packages are required to allow for rendering of PDFs in
+#' Jupyter when tinytex is used to install LaTeX.
+#'
+#' @format A vector with 16 package names:
+#' \describe{
+#'   \item{adjustbox}{}
+#'   \item{caption}{}
+#'   \item{collectbox}{}
+#'   \item{enumitem}{}
+#'   \item{environ}{}
+#'   \item{eurosym}{}
+#'   \item{jknapltx}{}
+#'   \item{parskip}{}
+#'   \item{pgf}{}
+#'   \item{rsfs}{}
+#'   \item{tcolorbox}{}
+#'   \item{titling}{}
+#'   \item{trimspaces}{}
+#'   \item{ucs}{}
+#'   \item{ulem}{}
+#'   \item{upquote}{}
+#' }
+#' @source \url{https://github.com/yihui/tinytex/issues/228}
+"jup_pkgs"
diff --git a/data-raw/jup_pkgs.R b/data-raw/jup_pkgs.R
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e1599332c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data-raw/jup_pkgs.R
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+## code to prepare `jup_pkgs` dataset goes here
+
+jup_pkgs <- c(
+  "adjustbox",
+  "caption",
+  "collectbox",
+  "enumitem",
+  "environ",
+  "eurosym",
+  "jknapltx",
+  "parskip",
+  "pgf",
+  "rsfs",
+  "tcolorbox",
+  "titling",
+  "trimspaces",
+  "ucs",
+  "ulem",
+  "upquote"
+)
+
+usethis::use_data(jup_pkgs, overwrite = TRUE)
diff --git a/data/jup_pkgs.rda b/data/jup_pkgs.rda
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..af1a14c77
Binary files /dev/null and b/data/jup_pkgs.rda differ
diff --git a/man/jup_pkgs.Rd b/man/jup_pkgs.Rd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b8e6b1258
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/jup_pkgs.Rd
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/jup_pkgs.R
+\docType{data}
+\name{jup_pkgs}
+\alias{jup_pkgs}
+\title{Additional tinytex packages needed for rendering of PDFs in Jupyter}
+\format{
+A vector with 16 package names:
+\describe{
+  \item{adjustbox}{}
+  \item{caption}{}
+  \item{collectbox}{}
+  \item{enumitem}{}
+  \item{environ}{}
+  \item{eurosym}{}
+  \item{jknapltx}{}
+  \item{parskip}{}
+  \item{pgf}{}
+  \item{rsfs}{}
+  \item{tcolorbox}{}
+  \item{titling}{}
+  \item{trimspaces}{}
+  \item{ucs}{}
+  \item{ulem}{}
+  \item{upquote}{}
+}
+}
+\source{
+\url{https://github.com/yihui/tinytex/issues/228}
+}
+\usage{
+jup_pkgs
+}
+\description{
+These 16 TexLive packages are required to allow for rendering of PDFs in
+Jupyter when tinytex is used to install LaTeX.
+}
+\keyword{datasets}