pak-package: pak: Another Approach to Package Installation

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pak: Another Approach to Package Installation

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.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Gábor Csárdi csardi.gabor@gmail.com

Authors:

  • Jim Hester

Other contributors:

  • Posit Software, PBC [copyright holder, funder]

  • Winston Chang (R6, callr, processx) [contributor]

  • Mango Solutions (callr, processx) [copyright holder, funder]

  • Hadley Wickham (cli, curl, pkgbuild, rappdirs) [contributor, copyright holder]

  • Brodie Gaslam (crayon) [contributor]

  • Jeroen Ooms (curl, jsonlite) [contributor]

  • Kirill Müller (cli, desc, rprojroot) [contributor]

  • Maëlle Salmon (desc, pkgsearch) [contributor]

  • Neal Richardson (distro) [contributor]

  • Jennifer Bryan (glue) [contributor]

  • Duncan Temple Lang (jsonlite) [contributor]

  • Lloyd Hilaiel (jsonlite) [copyright holder]

  • Michel Berkelaar and lpSolve authors (lpSolve) [contributor]

  • Linus Torvalds (parsedate) [contributor]

  • R Consortium (pkgsearch) [funder]

  • Bill Denney (prettyunits) [contributor]

  • Christophe Regouby (prettyunits) [contributor]

  • Jay Loden (ps) [contributor]

  • Dave Daeschler (ps) [contributor]

  • Giampaolo Rodola' (ps) [contributor]

  • Sridhar Ratnakumar (rappdirs) [contributor]

  • Trent Mick (rappdirs) [contributor]

  • ActiveState (rappdirs) [copyright holder]

  • Eddy Petrisor (rappdirs) [contributor]

  • Trevor Davis (rappdirs) [contributor]

  • Gregory Jefferis (rappdirs) [contributor]

  • Kuba Podgórski (zip) [contributor]

  • Rich Geldreich (zip) [contributor]

See Also

Useful links:


pak documentation built on Nov. 18, 2023, 1:11 a.m.