Re: its time for an update for install.packages!

My non-core vote is to discard this suggestion. 

FWIW R-Core doesn't pay much attention to this volunteer helpers list anyway... I suggest to OP that you spend a little more time with the official documentation before suggesting significant changes.

On February 3, 2026 12:30:05 PM PST, Yann Coh <[email protected]> wrote:
>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
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