pacman

The pacman package is an R package management tool that combines the functionality of base library related functions into intuitively named functions. This package is ideally added to .Rprofile to increase workflow by reducing time recalling obscurely named functions, reducing code and integrating functionality of base functions to simultaneously perform multiple actions.

Function names in the pacman package follow the format of p_xxx where 'xxx' is the task the function performs. For instance the p_load function allows the user to load one or more packages as a more generic substitute for the library or require functions and if the package isn't available locally it will install it for you.

Download the development version of pacman here

Help topics

Installing, Loading, Unloading, Updating, & Deleting

Functions for installing, loading, unloading, updating, & deleting packages

• p_load
  Load One or More Packages
• p_install p_get
  Installs & Loads Packages
• p_load_gh
  Load One or More GitHub Packages
• p_install_gh
  Installs & Loads GitHub Packages
• p_install_version
  Install Minimal Package Version
• p_temp
  Install a Package Temporarily
• p_unload
  Unloads package(s)
• p_update p_up
  Update Out-of-Date Packages
• p_delete p_del
  Permanently Remove Package Removal(s) From Library

Session Information

Functions to obtain package session information.

• p_loaded p_isloaded
  Check for Loaded Packages

Local Package Information

Functions to obtain local package information.

• p_author
  Package Author
• p_citation p_cite
  Package Citation
• p_data
  Package Data Sets
• p_depends p_depends_reverse
  Package Dependencies
• p_exists
  Checks if Package is On CRAN/In Local Library
• p_functions p_funs
  Package Functions
• p_help
  Package Help Manual
• p_information p_info
  Package Information
• p_interactive p_inter
  Interactive Package Exploration
• p_isinstalled
  Checks if Package is Installed
• p_news
  Package/R News
• p_version p_ver
  Package Version
• p_vignette p_vign
  View Package Vignette(s)

Internet Based Package Informatio

Functions to obtain Internet based package information.

• p_cran p_iscran
  CRAN Packages
• p_search_any p_sa
  Search CRAN Packages by Maintainer, Author, Version or Package

Library Information

Functions to obtain package library information.

• p_base
  Base Install Packages
• p_library p_lib
  Display Library Packages
• p_path
  Path to Library of Add-On Packages
• p_search_library p_sl
  Partial Matching Package Search
• p_unlock
  Delete 00LOCK Directory

pacman Tools

General pacman tools/functions.

• p_detectOS
  Detects Operating System
• p_extract
  Convert String With Commas Into Elements
• p_opendir
  Attempts to open a directory in a file browser