Update packages — update • renv

Update packages which are currently out-of-date. Currently supports CRAN, Bioconductor, other CRAN-like repositories, GitHub, GitLab, Git, and BitBucket.

Updates will only be checked from the same source – for example, if a package was installed from GitHub, but a newer version is available on CRAN, that updated version will not be seen.

Usage

update(
  packages = NULL,
  ...,
  exclude = NULL,
  library = NULL,
  type = NULL,
  rebuild = FALSE,
  check = FALSE,
  prompt = interactive(),
  lock = FALSE,
  project = NULL
)

Arguments

packages: A character vector of R packages to update. When NULL (the default), all packages (apart from any listed in the ignored.packages project setting) will be updated.
...: Unused arguments, reserved for future expansion. If any arguments are matched to ..., renv will signal an error.
exclude: A set of packages to explicitly exclude from updating. Use renv::update(exclude = <...>) to update all packages except for a specific set of excluded packages.
library: The R library to be used. When NULL, the active project library will be used instead.
type: The type of package to install ("source" or "binary"). Defaults to the value of getOption("pkgType").
rebuild: Force packages to be rebuilt, thereby bypassing any installed versions of the package available in the cache? This can either be a boolean (indicating that all installed packages should be rebuilt), or a vector of package names indicating which packages should be rebuilt.
check: Boolean; check for package updates without actually installing available updates? This is useful when you'd like to determine what updates are available, without actually installing those updates.
prompt: Boolean; prompt the user before taking any action? For backwards compatibility, confirm is accepted as an alias for prompt.
lock: Boolean; update the renv.lock lockfile after the successful installation of the requested packages?
project: The project directory. If NULL, then the active project will be used. If no project is currently active, then the current working directory is used instead.

Value

A named list of package records which were installed by renv.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{

# update the 'dplyr' package
renv::update("dplyr")

} # }