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pak

A Fresh Approach to R Package Installation

pak installs R packages from CRAN, Bioconductor, GitHub, URLs, git repositories, local files and directories. It is an alternative to install.packages() and devtools::install_github(). pak is fast, safe and convenient.

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Install or update packages from CRAN or Bioconductor

pak::pkg_install("tibble")

Install packages from GitHub

pak::pkg_install("tidyverse/tibble")

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install.packages('pak')

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0.8.0.2

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GPL-3

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Maintainer

Gabor Csardi

Last Published

December 1st, 2025