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pak (development version)

pak 0.7.2

CRAN release: 2024-03-17

  • pak now supports using parameters for all packages with the *=?<param> form. E.g. *=?source installs all packages from source.

  • pak now supports R 4.4.0 again, and also Rtools44.

pak 0.7.1

CRAN release: 2023-12-10

  • pak can now handle the case when Config/Needs/* dependencies are requested for package from a repository.

  • pak uses safer *printf() format strings now.

pak 0.7.0

CRAN release: 2023-11-17

pak 0.6.0

CRAN release: 2023-08-29

pak 0.5.1

CRAN release: 2023-04-27

  • No user visible changes.

pak 0.5.0

CRAN release: 2023-04-20

  • The meta_*() functions now consider the platforms, cran_mirror and r_versions config entries, see ?"pak-config".

  • Better Posit Package Manager (PPM) support. New +ppm_has_binaries(), ppm_r_versions(), ppm_repo_url(), ppm_snapshots() and ppm_platforms() functions to help interacting with PPM. See the new ‘pkgcache and Posit Package Manager on Linux’ article at https://r-lib.github.io/pkgcache. (r-lib/pkgcache#47 and r-lib/pkgdepends#186).

  • New system_r_platform() and system_r_platform_data() functions to query the current platform.

  • pak now support git repositories as package references. E.g. git::https://github.com/r-lib/pak.git.

  • pak now supports versioned CRAN packages, e.g. dplyr@1.1.1 will always install dplyr 1.1.1. Note that only CRAN packages are supported, Bioconductor packages are not (yet).

  • pak now has an alternative system requirements lookup implementation. It supports Fedora and Debian systems as well, in addition to Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE and RedHat derivatives. You can switch to this implementation by setting the R_PKG_SYSREQS2 environment variable to true.

  • pak now does a better job looking up dependencies for hand-selected dependency types. E.g. dependencies = "LinkingTo".

  • pak now removes ?ignore-d packages from dependencies, and uses the correct version comparison for ?ignore-before.r (https://github.com/r-lib/actions/issues/708).

  • pak now does not fail for circular soft dependencies (#306).

  • pak now reports dependency solver failures better in some cases (#305, https://github.com/r-lib/pak/issues/474).

  • pak now uses locally built CRAN binaries from the cache. Use the ?nocache parameter to opt out from this, or cache_delete(package = ...) to remove a package from the cache.

pak 0.4.0

CRAN release: 2023-01-15

  • pak has much improved and more informative error messages now. This work is not yet finished, so if you find an unclear error message, please open an issue. Thank you!

  • The solver is now more robust for non-canonical input (e.g. DESCRIPTION files) (https://github.com/r-lib/pak/issues/423).

  • Better installation output. Standard output and error are now collected together (https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdepends/commit/0669f0f8c).

  • The solver is now doing a better job when multiple versions of the same package are present in the same repository (https://github.com/r-lib/actions/issues/559).

  • pkg_name_check() now works again, it needed a fix after changes at https://crandb.r-pkg.org.

  • Explicit package names in local and URL package sources, as in package=local::... or package=url::... are now parsed correctly in dependencies.

  • pak is now more robust to Archs fields missing from the CRAN metadata for packages with compiled code (https://github.com/r-lib/pak/issues/448).

  • url:: packages now always work correctly, even if the digest package is not installed (https://github.com/r-lib/pak/issues/433).

  • pak is now more robust when installing packages from subdirectories of GitHub repositories (https://github.com/r-lib/pak/issues/431, @paleolimbot).

  • Parameters ?reinstall, ?source and ?ignore now work correctly when specified in the package=?parameter format (#294).

  • The ?ignore parameter works correctly now.

  • Dependency resolution now does not fail if a package is not found.

  • pak can now install url:: remotes from GitHub.

  • pak now does not fail when the package of a .tar.gz GitHub snapshot is in a subdirectory, or in a subdirectory of a subdirectory.

  • pak now errors early if it cannot deduce the name of the package from a Remotes or Config/Needs/* entry.

  • Solver failures now include details in some cases where previously they did not.

  • pak can now update packages in Docker containers where the old version was installed in the different Docker later (https://github.com/r-lib/pak/issues/251)

  • Update R version -> Bioconductor version mapping. R 4.2.x now maps to Bioconductor 3.16.

pak 0.3.1

CRAN release: 2022-09-08

  • The ?ignore parameter works correctly now.

  • Dependency resolution now does not fail if a package is not found.

  • pak can now install url:: remotes from GitHub.

  • pak now does not fail when the package of a .tar.gz GitHub snapshot is in a subdirectory, or in a subdirectory of a subdirectory.

  • pak now errors early if it cannot deduce the name of the package from a Remotes or Config/Needs/* entry.

  • Solver failures now include details in some cases where previously they did not.

  • pak can now update packages in Docker containers where the old version was installed in the different Docker later (#251)

  • pak errors are now user friendlier and better formatted.

  • pak now does not load tibble and its dependencies in the pak subprocess, so their dlls are not locked by the pak subprocess on Windows.

  • pak now does not fail when installing a package that uses a non-UTF-8 encoding on R 4.3.x and later (#404).

pak 0.3.0

CRAN release: 2022-04-11

  • pak functions that used to return tibbles return data frames now. While data frames and tibbles are very similar, they are not completely compatible. To convert the outputs of pak functions to tibbles call the tibble::as_tibble() function on them. If the pillar package is loaded, it improves the printing of the returned data frames.

    Relatedly, pak::pak_install_extra() installs pillar now, instead of tibble.

  • pak now supports file:// repositories.

  • pak now uses HTTP 1.1 to download packages on Linux, in addition to macOS. This fixes HTTP issues with some servers (#358).

  • New ?ignore-before-r parameter to ignore optional dependencies that need a newer R version (https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdepends/issues/243).

  • New ?ignore parameter to ignore an optional dependency.

  • Allow specifying downstream package parameters with the package=?param syntax.

  • lockfile_install() now works better for any:: refs, and pak always install the version it has planned for.

  • System requirement installation is now more robust and works for Unix shell expressions (#347).

  • CRAN-like resolution is more robust now if a repository is missing the usual metadata.

  • The lock file is pretty JSON now.

  • pak now handles all version requirement types properly: ‘<’, ‘<=’, ==, >=, >.

  • The dependency solver now uses better heuristics and does not (effectively) freeze if multiple repositories have multiple versions of the same packages (e.g. RSPM and CRAN) (https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdepends/pull/277)

pak 0.2.1

CRAN release: 2021-12-20

No user visible changes.

pak 0.2.0

CRAN release: 2021-12-01

Lots of news, too much to list. This is a completely new package now.

pak 0.1.2

CRAN release: 2019-02-19

First version on CRAN.