Read this if the default installation methods do not work for you or if you want the RC or development version.
Install a binary build of pak from our repository on GitHub:
install.packages("pak", repos = sprintf("https://r-lib.github.io/p/pak/stable/%s/%s/%s", .Platform$pkgType, R.Version()$os, R.Version()$arch))
This is supported for the following systems:
| OS | CPU | R version |
| Linux | x86_64 | R 3.4.0 - R-devel |
| Linux | aarch64 | R 3.4.0 - R-devel |
| macOS High Sierra+ | x86_64 | R 3.4.0 - R-devel |
| macOS Big Sur+ | aarch64 | R 4.1.0 - R-devel |
| Windows | x86_64 | R 3.4.0 - R-devel |
For macOS we only support the official CRAN R build. Other builds, e.g. Homebrew R, are not supported.
Install the released version of the package from CRAN as usual:
install.packages("pak")
This potentially needs a C compiler on platforms CRAN does not have binaries packages for.
We have nightly binary builds, for the same systems as the table above:
install.packages("pak", repos = sprintf("https://r-lib.github.io/p/pak/devel/%s/%s/%s", .Platform$pkgType, R.Version()$os, R.Version()$arch))
stable, rc and devel streams
We have three types of binaries available:
stable corresponds to the latest CRAN release of CRAN.
rc is a release candidate build, and it is available about 1-2 weeks
before a release. Otherwise it is the same as the stable build.
devel has builds from the development tree. Before release it might be
the same as the rc build.
The streams are available under different repository URLs:
stream <- "rc"
install.packages("pak", repos = sprintf("https://r-lib.github.io/p/pak/%s/%s/%s/%s", stream, .Platform$pkgType, R.Version()$os, R.Version()$arch))