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.
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 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)
No user visible changes.
Lots of news, too much to list. This is a completely new package now.
First version on CRAN.