pkgcache

2.2.5

Cache 'CRAN'-Like Metadata and R Packages

4packages depend

98Kdownloads / year

49.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiFirst published 2018-12-3126 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Metadata and package cache for CRAN-like repositories. This is a utility package to be used by package management tools that want to take advantage of caching.

Install

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

install.packages("pkgcache", 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/pkgcache")

Development version from r-lib/pkgcache. 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-pkgcache

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

# 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-pkgcache

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

Documentation signals are not tracked yet for this package.

Downloads

98K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,192 · ~268/day · ~8.2K/mo

pkgcache Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/pkgcache

30Stars

18Forks

10Open issues

1Open PRs

25Releases

767Commits

15Contributors

767 commits · Last activity 2026-07-15

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/pkgcache on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4

Imports (9)

callr cli curl filelock jsonlite processx R6toolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

covr debugme desc fs keyring pillar pingr rprojroot sessioninfo spelling testthat webfakes (>= 1.1.5)withr zip

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

1indirect

pkgdepends Require pak shinylive

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer

Posit Software, PBC

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 2.0.2 to 2.2.0.1

Package Timeline

26 releases. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.2.5Latest
2026-04-09 · current release · diff ↗
2.2.4
2025-05-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.2.3
2024-09-12 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.2.2
2024-04-04 · diff ↗
2.2.1
2023-12-10 · diff ↗
2.2.0.1
2023-07-18 · diff ↗
2.2.0
2023-07-18 · diff ↗
2.1.1
2023-06-14 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.1.0
2023-04-18 · diff ↗
2.0.4
2022-12-16 · diff ↗
2.0.3
2022-10-26 · diff ↗
2.0.2
2022-09-08 · diff ↗

Show 19 earlier events

R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.0.1
2022-02-19 · diff ↗
2.0.0
2022-02-16 · diff ↗
1.3.0
2021-11-29 · diff ↗
1.2.2
2021-05-19 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2.1
2021-04-14 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2021-03-01 · diff ↗
1.1.1
2020-10-11 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2020-07-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.0.7
2020-04-18 · diff ↗
1.0.6
2020-01-30 · diff ↗
1.0.5
2019-05-31 · diff ↗
1.0.4
2019-05-13 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.0.3
2019-01-11 · diff ↗
1.0.2
2018-12-31
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-12-31
Total releases: 26 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 286 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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