pak 0.9.0

• pak now supports HTTP basic authentication for CRAN-like repositories.
  See 'Authenticated repositories' in the reference manual.

• New function scan_deps() to auto-detect package dependencies from
  R code. deps::. automatically uses detected dependencies now if no
  DESCRIPTION file is found.

• The dependency solver now uses better heuristics, that works better
  (=faster) with multiple repositories with large overlaps
  (r-lib/pkgdepends#392).

• pak is now much better at detecting the correct Linux distribution
  when deciding about PPM and system requirements support.

• pak now uses the use_bioconductor configuration option in meta_*() and
  repo_*() functions (#295, #726, @meztez).

pak 0.8.0.2

No changes

pak 0.8.0.1

No changes.

pak 0.8.0

• pkg_deps() now accepts a vector of package names.

• The metadata cache now does not use source URLs for packages in Archive
  on Posit Package Manager repositories. This URLs may serve a different
  package, even a source package when the main URL for the same package
  serves a binary package. The alternative URLs are not needed on PPM,
  anyway, because PPM is in a consistent state w.r.t. metadata and
  package files (#623).

• pak now supports gitlab:: package sources better, by adding
  explicit syntax to specify subdirectories (r-lib/pkgdepends#353, @dgkf).

• gitlab:: and git:: package sources now support git submodules if
  the git-submodules configuration option is set to TRUE. See
  ?"pak-config" (r-lib/pkgdepends#354).

• The new ?ignore-unavailable parameter makes it easy to ignore soft
  dependencies that are unavailable (#606).

• pak now automatically ignores soft dependencies that have an
  incompatible OS type (OS_type entry in DESCRIPTION) when installing
  packages.

• repo_add() and the ppm_*() functions, e.g. ppm_snapshots(), now
  work again after the PPM API changes
  (r-lib/pkgcache#110,
  r-lib/pkgcache#115).

pak 0.7.2

• 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

• 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

• pak now correctly handles the latest GitHub release with
  the @*release notation (@pawelru,
  r-lib/pkgdepends#321)

• pak now correctly handles having multiple instances of the same
  package in the metadata, with different R version requirements
  (#534, #538, r-lib/pkgdepends#331).

• git:: package references work better now for Azure DevOps
  (@jameslairdsmith, r-lib/pkgdepends#333,
  r-lib/pkgdepends#342).

• pak now does a better job at accepting installed packages, and
  avoids reinstalling more packages than needed when using a lock file
  (r-lib/actions#759,
  r-lib/pkgdepends#338).

pak 0.6.0

• pak now requires R >= 3.5.0.

• Many improvements in system requirements support:

  • New functions:
    • pkg_sysreqs(): calculate system requirements of packages.
    • sysreqs_db_list(), sysreqs_db_match(), sysreqs_db_update():
      query the system requirements database.
    • sysreqs_list_system_packages(), sysreqs_check_installed(),
      sysreqs_fix_installed(): query and install missing system packages.
    • sysreqs_platforms(): list supported platforms.
  • The installation proposal, printed before installation, now includes
    required and missing system packages, on supported platforms.
  • New sysreqs_platform configuration option to override the auto-detected
    platform.
  • Faster, asynchronous system requirements lookup.
  • pak now does not reinstall system requirements by default,
    if they are already installed. (You can force a reinstall/upgrade
    with the sysreqs_update configuration option.)

• New gitlab:: package source to install packages from GitLab
  (r-lib/pkgdepends#315).

• pak now correctly parses multiple git:: packages at once
  (r-lib/pkgdepends#318).

• git:: package sources now support version 1 of the git protocol.
  E.g. the Bioconductor git repositories now work:
  git::https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/limma
  (r-lib/pkgdepends#314).

• The platforms config parameter now works correctly with deps::
  package sources (#522).

• New include_linkingto config parameter to always include LinkingTo
  packages in the solution, even for binaries
  (https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdepends/issues/485).

• pkg_name_check() now does not include Acromine results, because the web
  site was unstable.

• In repo_add() and repo_resolve() the MRAN@ prefix is now deprecated
  and resolves to PPM, because MRAN will be retired soon. See more at
  https://posit.co/blog/migrating-from-mran-to-posit-package-manager/.

• The metadata cache now has SystemRequirements information for Bioconductor
  packages.

pak 0.5.1

• No user visible changes.

pak 0.5.0

• 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. [email protected] 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
  (r-lib/actions#708).

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

• pak now reports dependency solver failures better in some cases
  (#305, #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.