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rpkg is a lightweight command-line interface tool published by Alberson Miranda that is designed to simplify the installation of R packages directly from the terminal. Rather than requiring users to open an R session and work with functions such as install.packages or devtools-based installers, rpkg provides a streamlined terminal-native workflow for fetching and installing packages from a variety of sources. Its purpose is to make package management for the R programming language faster and more convenient, particularly for users who spend much of their time in a shell environment or who wish to script and automate package installation as part of larger development or deployment processes. The tool supports installing R packages from CRAN, the Comprehensive R Archive Network, which serves as the primary official repository for R packages, as well as from several popular code-hosting platforms, including GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Codeberg. This multi-source support makes rpkg useful not only for installing stable, published releases from CRAN but also for working with development versions or packages that are hosted exclusively on version control platforms. Typical use cases include setting up fresh development environments, provisioning machines or containers with required R dependencies, installing work-in-progress packages maintained by collaborators on Git hosting services, and generally reducing the friction involved in managing R package installations from the command line. Within a software catalog, rpkg falls under the categories of developer tools, command-line utilities, and package management software for the R ecosystem. The current and only recorded version of rpkg is 0.3.2, with a total of one version listed, indicating that the software is at an early stage of its release history. As a lightweight utility, it aims to stay focused on a single task—terminal-based installation of R packages—and to perform that task effortlessly across the supported sources.
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