Recognize and Parse Dates in Various Formats, Including All ISO 8601 Formats

Parse dates automatically, without the need of specifying a format. Currently it includes the git date parser. It can also recognize and parse all ISO 8601 formats.

Raw System Credential Store Access from R

Aims to support all features of the system credential store, including non-portable ones. Supports 'Keychain' on 'macOS', and 'Credential Manager' on 'Windows'. See the 'keyring' package if you need a portable 'API'.

Create Rich Command Line Applications

Create rich command line applications, with colors, headings, lists, alerts, progress bars, etc. It uses CSS for custom themes. This package is now superseded by the 'cli' package. Please use 'cli' instead in new projects.

Cache 'CRAN'-Like Metadata and R Packages

Metadata and package cache for CRAN-like repositories. This is a utility package to be used by package management tools that want to take advantage of caching.

Package Dependency Resolution and Downloads

Find recursive dependencies of 'R' packages from various sources. Solve the dependencies to obtain a consistent set of packages to install. Download packages, and install them. It supports packages on 'CRAN', 'Bioconductor' and other 'CRAN-like' repositories, 'GitHub', package 'URLs', and local package trees and files. It caches metadata and package files via the 'pkgcache' package, and performs all 'HTTP' requests, downloads, builds and installations in parallel. 'pkgdepends' is the workhorse of the 'pak' package.

Check if a Remote Computer is Up

Check if a remote computer is up. It can either just call the system ping command, or check a specified TCP port.

Share Sensitive Information in R Packages

Allow sharing sensitive information, for example passwords, 'API' keys, etc., in R packages, using public key cryptography.

Find Tools Needed to Build R Packages

Provides functions used to build R packages. Locates compilers needed to build R packages on various platforms and ensures the PATH is configured appropriately so R can use them.

C Resource Cleanup via Exit Handlers

Wrapper of .Call() that runs exit handlers to clean up C resources. Helps managing C (non-R) resources while using the R API.

List, Query, Manipulate System Processes

List, query and manipulate all system processes, on 'Windows', 'Linux' and 'macOS'.