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pak

Another Approach to Package Installation

v0.10.0 · Jun 6, 2026 · GPL-3

Description

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.

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CRAN Check Status

13 OK
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Flavor Status
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc OK
r-devel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-arm64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-patched-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-macos-arm64 OK
r-release-macos-x86_64 OK
r-release-windows-x86_64 OK

Check History

OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 9, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 5, 2026
ERROR r-release-windows-x86_64

whether package can be installed

Installation failed.
See 'd:/Rcompile/CRANpkg/local/4.6/pak.Rcheck/00install.out' for details.
OK 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 25, 2026
NOTE 11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 20, 2026
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is 12.2Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    library  11.3Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 12.6Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    library  11.7Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 18.0Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    library  17.1Mb
ERROR 10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 18, 2026
ERROR r-devel-windows-x86_64

whether package can be installed

Installation failed.
See 'd:/Rcompile/CRANpkg/local/4.6/pak.Rcheck/00install.out' for details.
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is 12.2Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    library  11.3Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 12.6Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    library  11.7Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 18.0Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    library  17.1Mb
NOTE 11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is 12.2Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    library  11.3Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 12.6Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    library  11.7Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 17.9Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    library  17.0Mb

Reverse Dependencies (37)

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies PaRe Require courieR devtools dockerfiler guideR havel manifesto mizer natmanager shinyscholar thisutils tidyfst wjake DownBallotR +22 more reverse deps pak

Version History

25 tracked
updated 0.10.0 ← 0.9.5 diff Jun 7, 2026
updated 0.9.5 ← 0.9.4 diff Apr 27, 2026
updated 0.9.4 ← 0.9.3-1 diff Apr 17, 2026
updated 0.9.3-1 ← 0.9.3 diff Apr 15, 2026
updated 0.9.3 ← 0.9.2 diff Apr 9, 2026
new 0.9.2 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.9.2 ← 0.9.1 diff Dec 21, 2025
updated 0.9.1 ← 0.9.0 diff Nov 30, 2025
updated 0.9.0 ← 0.8.0.2 diff May 26, 2025
updated 0.8.0.2 ← 0.8.0.1 diff Apr 8, 2025
updated 0.8.0.1 ← 0.8.0 diff Jan 15, 2025
updated 0.8.0 ← 0.7.2 diff Aug 25, 2024
updated 0.7.2 ← 0.7.1 diff Mar 16, 2024
updated 0.7.1 ← 0.7.0 diff Mar 3, 2024
updated 0.7.0 ← 0.6.0 diff Nov 16, 2023