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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

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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-macos-arm64 OK
r-devel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-arm64 NOTE
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 NOTE
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 NOTE
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 details (14 non-OK)
OK r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

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OK r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

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OK r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

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OK r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

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OK r-devel-macos-arm64

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OK r-devel-windows-x86_64

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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
OK r-patched-linux-x86_64

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OK r-release-linux-x86_64

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OK r-release-macos-arm64

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OK r-release-macos-x86_64

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OK r-release-windows-x86_64

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Check History

NOTE 11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 9, 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 (23)

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies PaRe dockerfiler guideR havel natmanager thisutils MSEtool MiscMetabar Require SCDB USAboundaries aNCA easystats linktree pkgdepends +8 more reverse deps pak

Version History

new 0.9.2 Mar 9, 2026