R Observatory: Metrics for pak version 0.11.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pak

0.11.1

Another Approach to Package Installation

40packages depend

1.8Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiFirst published 2019-02-1926 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("r-lib/pak")

Development version from r-lib/pak. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-pak

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-pak

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-pak

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 12.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.13

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-05
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 3 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-04-20
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 421 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 82%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

1.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #196 · ~5K/day · ~151.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

256.5K30 days

880.8K90 days

1.8M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on95.8K r2u22 autocran58.1K conda_forge

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/pak

819Stars

87Forks

257Open issues

14Open PRs

24Releases

1,544Commits

38Contributors

r

1,544 commits · Last activity 2026-08-16 · +0.6% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-11 · 7532026-08-15 · 819

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/pak on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Show all practices

Coverage (1)

Codecov

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (2)

toolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (23)

callr cli covr curl desc filelock gitcreds glue jsonlite keyring pingr pkgbuild (>= 1.4.2)pkgcache pkgdepends pkgload pkgsearch processx ps rstudioapi testthat webfakes withr yaml

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

40direct

82indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (30)

Maintainer (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer

Jim Hester

Author

Contributors (24)

Michel Berkelaar and lpSolve authors

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Will Beasley

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Winston Chang

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Dave Daeschler

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Zhuoer Dong

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Charlie Gao

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Shawn Garbett

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Rich Geldreich

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Show 16 more contributors

Jeffrey Horner

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Zhian Kamvar

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Jay Loden

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Brendan O'Connor

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Jeroen Ooms

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Kuba Podgórski

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Michael Quinn

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Giampaolo Rodola

Contributor · added in 0.7.2

Maëlle Salmon

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Kirill Simonov

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Jeremy Stephens

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Duncan Temple Lang

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Gregory Warnes

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Hadley Wickham

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.7.0

Alec Wong

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Yihui Xie

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Copyright holders (4)

Hadley Wickham

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.7.0

Ascent Digital Services

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.7.2

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.7.0

Lloyd Hilaiel

Copyright holder · added in 0.7.0

Funders (3)

Ascent Digital Services

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.7.2

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.7.0

R Consortium

Funder · added in 0.7.0

Listed in earlier versions (16)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1.2 to 0.6.0

ActiveState

no longer listed · 0.7.0

Mango Solutions

no longer listed · 0.7.0 to 0.7.1

Jennifer Bryan

no longer listed · 0.7.0

Trevor Davis

no longer listed · 0.7.0

Bill Denney

no longer listed · 0.7.0

Brodie Gaslam

no longer listed · 0.7.0

Gregory Jefferis

no longer listed · 0.7.0

Package Timeline

26 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.11.1Latest
2026-07-22 · current release · diff ↗
0.11.0
2026-07-15 · diff ↗
0.10.0
2026-06-07 · diff ↗
0.9.5
2026-04-27 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.9.4
2026-04-17 · diff ↗
0.9.3-1
2026-04-15 · diff ↗
0.9.3
2026-04-09 · diff ↗
0.9.2
2025-12-22 · diff ↗
0.9.1
2025-12-01 · diff ↗
0.9.0
2025-05-27 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.8.0.2
2025-04-09 · diff ↗
0.8.0.1
2025-01-16 · diff ↗
0.8.0
2024-08-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Show 21 earlier events

0.7.2
2024-03-17 · diff ↗
0.7.1
2024-03-04 · diff ↗
0.7.0
2023-11-17 · diff ↗
0.6.0
2023-08-29 · diff ↗
0.5.1
2023-04-27 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5.0
2023-04-20 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2023-01-15 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2022-09-08 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.0
2022-04-11 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2021-12-20 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2021-12-01 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.2.1
2020-11-20 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-11-20
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-11-16
check problems were not corrected in time
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.2
2019-02-19
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-02-19
Total releases: 26 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 3.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pak")

Format

Csárdi, G., Ascent Digital Services, Michel Berkelaar and lpSolve authors, Posit Software, PBC, R Consortium, Beasley, W., Chang, W., Daeschler, D., Dong, Z., Gao, C., Garbett, S., Geldreich, R., Hester, J., Hilaiel, L., Horner, J., Kamvar, Z., Loden, J., O'Connor, B., Ooms, J., Podgórski, K., Quinn, M., Rodola, G., Salmon, M., Simonov, K., Stephens, J., Temple Lang, D., Warnes, G., Wickham, H., Wong, A., & Xie, Y. (2026). pak: Another Approach to Package Installation (Version 0.11.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pak

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pak version 0.11.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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