pak

Another Approach to Package Installation

v0.9.2 · Dec 21, 2025 · 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

3 NOTE

11 OK

Show all 14 flavors

Flavor	Status	Time
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang	OK	267.1s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc	OK	211.1s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang	OK	428.1s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc	OK	520.3s
r-devel-macos-arm64	OK	82s
r-devel-windows-x86_64	OK	636s
r-oldrel-macos-arm64	NOTE	92s
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64	NOTE	572s
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64	NOTE	649s
r-patched-linux-x86_64	OK	264.8s
r-release-linux-x86_64	OK	260s
r-release-macos-arm64	OK	94s
r-release-macos-x86_64	OK	463s
r-release-windows-x86_64	OK	598s

Check details (3 non-OK)

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

Check History

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 (26)

imports

PaRe devtools dockerfiler guideR havel natmanager shinyscholar thisutils

suggests

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Version History

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

updated 0.6.0 ← 0.5.1 diff Aug 28, 2023

updated 0.5.1 ← 0.5.0 diff Apr 26, 2023

updated 0.5.0 ← 0.4.0 diff Apr 19, 2023

updated 0.4.0 ← 0.3.1 diff Jan 14, 2023

updated 0.3.1 ← 0.3.0 diff Sep 7, 2022

updated 0.3.0 ← 0.2.1 diff Apr 10, 2022

updated 0.2.1 ← 0.2.0 diff Dec 19, 2021

updated 0.2.0 ← 0.1.2.1 diff Nov 30, 2021

updated 0.1.2.1 ← 0.1.2 diff Nov 19, 2020

new 0.1.2 Feb 18, 2019