pkgload

Overview

About

Maintained by Lionel HenryFirst published 2018-07-0821 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Simulates the process of installing a package and then attaching it. This is a key part of the 'devtools' package as it allows you to rapidly iterate while developing a package.

Install

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

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

Development version from r-lib/pkgload. 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-pkgload

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-pkgload

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-pkgload

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.7 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.62

69.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

11

Dependencies · direct

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OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-23
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 114 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 55%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 5%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

8.7M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #54 · ~23.9K/day · ~726.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1M30 days

3.2M90 days

8.7M1 year

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Also on201.5K r2u147 autocran370.4K conda_forge711 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/pkgload

61Stars

52Forks

25Open issues

3Open PRs

18Releases

1,273Commits

69Contributors

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1,273 commits · Last activity 2026-07-07

Issues over time

2026-07-09 · 242026-07-18 · 25

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

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

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Git structural (1)

blame-ignore revs

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (11)

cli desc fs glue lifecyclemethodspkgbuild processx rlang rprojrootutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

bitops jsonlite mathjaxr pak Rcpp remotes rstudioapi testthat usethis withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 6,711 (80%)Rd 991 (12%)Other 508 (6%)Markdown 150 (2%)C++ 58 (1%)C 10 (0%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S31

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 23 max
Test cases: 103 / 0.62 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

69%

Expression

71.6%

Tests / Examples

69.0% / – ex

Functions

183 31 exported

Complexity

2.9 avg / 23 max

Call network

183 nodes / 286 edges

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Lowest coverage

183 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
check_dep_version exp	5	0%
check_suggested exp	8	0%
has_tests exp	1	0%
inst exp	2	0%
pkg_ns exp	1	0%
pkg_version exp	1	0%

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Lionel Henry

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2.4

Authors (4)

Lionel Henry

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2.4

Winston Chang

Author

Jim Hester

Author

Hadley Wickham

Author

Contributors (1)

R Core team

Contributor

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.3.3

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.3.3

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.3.2.1

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-08
Total releases: 21 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 86 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet