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Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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261 open issues indexed

`unknown archive type` error on macOS Open

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r-lib/pak#915 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Bioconductor binaries from P3M (`BioC_mirror`) are treated as source packages Open

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r-lib/pak#914 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026
`pak::pak()`/`pkg_install()` fails with 401 Unauthorized on the second of two sequential `git::` remote installs to the same host with different credentials Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

r-lib/pak#913 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Unable to install package through authenticated access Open

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r-lib/pak#910 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Warning: package 'pak' is not available for this version of R version 4.6.1 (2026-06-24 ucrt) Open

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r-lib/pak#905 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Fix cross-compiling Open

bug

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r-lib/pak#904 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
[BUG] Build failure installing pak v0.11.0 (Windows/R 4.6/rtools45) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/pak#898 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 16, 2026
Installing a github package via pak does not build the vignettes. How do I fix this? Open

documentation

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r-lib/pak#886 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 8, 2026
pak fails when trying to install hundreds of packages due to a dependency conflict Open

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r-lib/pak#877 · 2 comments · Opened May 18, 2026
Local install, because the package DESCRIPTION can't be parsed Open

bug

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r-lib/pak#876 · 2 comments · Opened May 13, 2026
error in pak subprocess Caused by error in `state$plan$file[pkgidx] <- worker$process$get_built_file()`: ! replacement has length zero Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

r-lib/pak#873 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 29, 2026
pak seems to ignore pkg.include_linkingto option Open

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r-lib/pak#872 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 29, 2026
pak::local_install fails with error "Failed to download package from `file://...`" when devtools::install works well Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

r-lib/pak#867 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 24, 2026
r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2 fails on github enterprise cloud since pak v.0.9.3 when using internal package installation via Remotes Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

r-lib/pak#859 · Opened Apr 14, 2026
Rust bootstrap silently fails on fresh Ubuntu 22.04 when curl is missing Open

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r-lib/pak#857 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 8, 2026
Feature Request: Allow passing a multi-line string of packages to pak::pak() Open

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r-lib/pak#855 · Opened Apr 2, 2026
`pak::local_install_deps` fails to download in a GitHub CodeSpaces postCreateCommand Open

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r-lib/pak#853 · Opened Mar 18, 2026
Don't execute `can_sudo_without_pw()` until/unless it's absolutely necessary Open

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r-lib/pak#850 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 13, 2026
pak::pkg_install() fails on corporate Windows where AppLocker blocks cmdunzip.exe Open

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r-lib/pak#849 · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 19, 2026
pak::scan_deps() empty results when given file path(s) Open

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r-lib/pak#844 · Opened Jan 29, 2026
Internal subprocess does not inherit R session options Open

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r-lib/pak#843 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 13, 2026
Recognize P3M packages as CRAN packages, on macOS as well Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/pak#842 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 5, 2026
Work around CRAN metadata inconsistencies on macos Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

r-lib/pak#840 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 21, 2025
bug: configuration cache options dont propagate to pak's `cache*` functions Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

r-lib/pak#836 · Opened Dec 8, 2025
Installing specific package versions from Private Posit PPM instance Open

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r-lib/pak#835 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 4, 2025
Use PPM instead of the Posit CRAN mirror if no repo is set (and it is appropriate) Open

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r-lib/pak#833 · Opened Nov 26, 2025
Impossible to compile `pak` on openSUSE Tumbleweed due to LTO error Open

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r-lib/pak#832 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 14, 2025
pak install error in Docker ARM64 architecture running under emulation on AMD64 machine Open

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r-lib/pak#830 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 5, 2025
pak install error with Unable to move package from cache to pkgdir Open

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r-lib/pak#829 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2025
`pak` unable to install Linux binary packages from PPM's new `bin/linux` repo URLs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

r-lib/pak#826 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 9, 2025
install.packages("pak") fails: Error in eval(ei, envir) : Compilation failed. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

r-lib/pak#825 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 1, 2025
pak install fails randomly on Windows 11 (R 4.5.1) Open

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r-lib/pak#824 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 26, 2025
`pkg_install()` throws error reading from connection in `readRDS(dbfile)` Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/pak#822 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 23, 2025
Uninformative error from `pkg_install` when installing packages no longer available on requested repository (e.g., CRAN) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

r-lib/pak#821 · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 19, 2025
Feature Request: "host" argument for installing from self-hosted gitlab Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

r-lib/pak#820 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2025
versioned package installation can fail when package provided by multiple repositories Open

bug

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r-lib/pak#819 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 15, 2025
can't access lock file in shared mount Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

r-lib/pak#818 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 5, 2025
abseil missing from s2 system dependencies on fedora 42 Open

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r-lib/pak#816 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2025
Better sysreqs support for manylinux packages Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

r-lib/pak#815 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2025
Package installation with pak fails on cluster but works locally Open

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r-lib/pak#814 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2025
Bug: `pkg_remove()` does not accept a character vector of packages to remove Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

r-lib/pak#813 · Opened Aug 26, 2025
Blueskies Feature Request: Package features syntax Open

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r-lib/pak#810 · 1 comment · 8 reactions · Opened Aug 13, 2025
pak does not see system dependencies under non default path Open

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r-lib/pak#809 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 13, 2025
Warn or Error on Collision? Open

feature

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r-lib/pak#806 · Opened Aug 3, 2025
Error in `res_one_row_df(entries)`: ! `nrow(out)` must equal `1` Open

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r-lib/pak#804 · 17 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2025
Install packages fails since R 4.5.1 Open

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r-lib/pak#802 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 15, 2025
Unclear dependency conflicts: cli conflicts with cli, to be installed Open

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r-lib/pak#801 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2025
Add static pak build for Windows ARM to repo Open

builds feature

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r-lib/pak#799 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 5, 2025
curl in pak-libs too old Open

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r-lib/pak#797 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 2, 2025
Failure to solve GitLab package dependencies Open

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r-lib/pak#796 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 28, 2025

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