What does the R-package 'pak' do?

Another Approach to Package Installation

Gábor Csárdi, Jim Hester, Posit Software, PBC, Winston Chang, Ascent Digital Services, Hadley Wickham, Jeroen Ooms, Maëlle Salmon, Duncan Temple Lang, Lloyd Hilaiel, Michel Berkelaar, lpSolve authors, R Consortium, Jay Loden, Dave Daeschler, Giampaolo Rodola, Kuba Podgórski, Rich Geldreich

CRAN/E | pak

Installation

About

The goal of 'pak' is to make package installation faster and more reliable. In particular, it performs all HTTP operations in parallel, so metadata resolution and package downloads are fast. Metadata and package files are cached on the local disk as well. 'pak' has a dependency solver, so it finds version conflicts before performing the installation. This version of 'pak' supports CRAN, 'Bioconductor' and 'GitHub' packages as well.

pak.r-lib.org/
github.com/r-lib/pak
Copyright	see file COPYRIGHTS
Bug report	File report

Key Metrics

Version	0.7.2
R	≥ 3.5
Published	2024-03-17 38 days ago
Needs compilation?	yes
License	GPL-3
CRAN checks	pak results

Downloads

Yesterday	553 0%
Last 7 days	3.164 -21%
Last 30 days	14.658 -53%
Last 90 days	76.186 -21%
Last 365 days	364.801 -29%

Maintainer

Gábor Csárdi

csardi.gabor@gmail.com

Authors

Gábor Csárdi	aut / cre
Jim Hester	aut
Posit Software
PBC	cph / fnd
Winston Chang	ctb (R6, callr, processx)
Ascent Digital Services	cph / fnd (callr, processx)
Hadley Wickham	ctb / cph (cli, curl, pkgbuild)
Jeroen Ooms	ctb (curl, jsonlite)
Maëlle Salmon	ctb (desc, pkgsearch)
Duncan Temple Lang	ctb (jsonlite)
Lloyd Hilaiel	cph (jsonlite)
Michel Berkelaar
lpSolve authors	ctb (lpSolve)
R Consortium	fnd (pkgsearch)
Jay Loden	ctb (ps)
Dave Daeschler	ctb (ps)
Giampaolo Rodola	ctb (ps)
Kuba Podgórski	ctb (zip)
Rich Geldreich	ctb (zip)

Material

NEWS
Reference manual
Package source

macOS

r-release	arm64
r-oldrel	arm64
r-release	x86_64

Windows

r-devel	x86_64
r-release	x86_64
r-oldrel	x86_64

Old Sources

pak archive

Depends

R

≥ 3.5

Imports

tools
utils

Suggests

callr	≥ 3.7.0
cli	≥ 3.2.0
covr
curl	≥ 4.3.2
desc	≥ 1.4.1
filelock	≥ 1.0.2
gitcreds
glue	≥ 1.6.2
jsonlite	≥ 1.8.0
mockery
pingr
pkgbuild	≥ 1.4.2
pkgcache	≥ 2.0.4
pkgdepends	≥ 0.5.0.9001
pkgsearch	≥3.1.0
processx	≥ 3.8.1
ps	≥ 1.6.0
rstudioapi
testthat	≥ 3.2.0
withr

Reverse Imports

dockerfiler
natmanager
PaRe

Reverse Suggests

MiscMetabar
pkgdepends
pkgload
renv
rethnicity
xfun