Yann, For those of us who are not as knowledable about the inner workings of R may I request that you give us more information: (1) What is the problem with the current version of install.packages? (2) What do you want install.packages to do that it currently does not do? Thank you, John
P.S. I looked at your Bluesky post, but it did not answer my quesitons. John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Associate Director for Biostatistics and Informatics, Baltimore VA Medical Center Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center; Former PI Biostatistics and Informatics Core, University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center; Senior Statistician University of Maryland Center for Vascular Research; Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 Cell phone 443-418-5382 ________________________________________ From: R-help <[email protected]> on behalf of Yann Coh <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2026 3:30 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [R] its time for an update for install.packages! Hey Core, followed by my Bluesky post <https://bsky.app/profile/yannco.bsky.social/post/3mdy4rlios226>, I felt like this was such a simple, yet required change! Let's default to using pak when prompted or when running old scripts with install.packages. ```r .utils_install_packages <- utils::install.packages install.packages <- function(pkgs, ...) { if (requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE)) { pak::pkg_install(pkgs, ...) } else { .utils_install_packages(pkgs, ...) } } ``` btw, util's home help page shows the r-core email address as maintainer, and the description file shows r-help -- Yann Cohen 🌐 www,yann-dev,io <https://iamyannc.github.io/Yann-dev> 📞 +596 696 66 58 93 <https://wa.me/596696665893> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
