pak: Another Approach to Package Installation

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.

Package overview

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Package details
Author	Gábor Csárdi [aut, cre], Jim Hester [aut], Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd], Winston Chang [ctb] (R6, callr, processx), Mango Solutions [cph, fnd] (callr, processx), Hadley Wickham [ctb, cph] (cli, curl, pkgbuild, rappdirs), Brodie Gaslam [ctb] (crayon), Jeroen Ooms [ctb] (curl, jsonlite), Kirill Müller [ctb] (cli, desc, rprojroot), Maëlle Salmon [ctb] (desc, pkgsearch), Neal Richardson [ctb] (distro), Jennifer Bryan [ctb] (glue), Duncan Temple Lang [ctb] (jsonlite), Lloyd Hilaiel [cph] (jsonlite), Michel Berkelaar and lpSolve authors [ctb] (lpSolve), Linus Torvalds [ctb] (parsedate), R Consortium [fnd] (pkgsearch), Bill Denney [ctb] (prettyunits), Christophe Regouby [ctb] (prettyunits), Jay Loden [ctb] (ps), Dave Daeschler [ctb] (ps), Giampaolo Rodola' [ctb] (ps), Sridhar Ratnakumar [ctb] (rappdirs), Trent Mick [ctb] (rappdirs), ActiveState [cph] (rappdirs), Eddy Petrisor [ctb] (rappdirs), Trevor Davis [ctb] (rappdirs), Gregory Jefferis [ctb] (rappdirs), Kuba Podgórski [ctb] (zip), Rich Geldreich [ctb] (zip)
Maintainer	Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor@gmail.com>
License	GPL-3
Version	0.7.0
URL	https://pak.r-lib.org/ https://github.com/r-lib/pak
Package repository	View on CRAN
Installation	Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R: `install.packages("pak")`