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Upgrade renv

Source: R/upgrade.R
upgrade.Rd

Upgrade the version of renv associated with a project, including using a development version from GitHub. Automatically snapshots the update renv, updates the activate script, and restarts R.

If you want to update all packages (including renv) to their latest CRAN versions, use update().

Usage

upgrade(project = NULL, version = NULL, reload = NULL, prompt = interactive())

Arguments

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.

version

The version of renv to be installed.

When NULL (the default), the latest version of renv will be installed as available from CRAN (or whatever active package repositories are active) Alternatively, you can install the latest development version with "main", or a specific commit with a SHA, e.g. "5049cef8a".

reload

Boolean; reload renv after install? When NULL (the default), renv will be re-loaded only if updating renv for the active project. Since it's not possible to guarantee a clean reload in the current session, this will attempt to restart your R session.

prompt

Boolean; prompt upgrade before proceeding?

Value

A boolean value, indicating whether the requested version of renv was successfully installed. Note that this function is normally called for its side effects.

Examples

if (FALSE) {

# upgrade to the latest version of renv
renv::upgrade()

# upgrade to the latest version of renv on GitHub (development version)
renv::upgrade(version = "main")

}