renv Files

Fixed an issue where renv::hydrate() could fail to install packages discovered in the user library during renv::init(). (#2109)

renv::update() now only updates the packages installed in the project library by default. renv::update(all = TRUE) can be used to also check if packages installed in the default library are out-of-date, and install updated copies into the project library. (#2108)

Fixed an issue where package installation could fail on Arch Linux with the error message "don't know how to check sysreqs on this system". (#2107)

renv now supports profile-specific comments within .gitignore and .renvignore files. These are comments of the form #| <code>, where <code> is R code which should indicate if the .renvignore rules should apply. Typically, this should be of the form #| profile == "extra", or #| profile %in% c("extra", "other"). Note that only a small subset of base R functions are available for evaluation in this context. Note that the first section in a .renvignore implicitly applies to all profiles -- if you want to limit it to just the default profile, you can use #| profile == "default" for the first line. (#1662)

The environment variable RENV_PATHS_VERSION can now be used to substitute the R version component normally used in library / cache paths. The provided path can include placeholders like %V for the full R version including the patch level, and %v for the R version without the patch level. Defaults to R-%v when unset. (#1687)

renv::install() gains the transactional argument, for parity with renv::restore(). (#1109)