How to upgrade a package when using packrat

[notesofdabbler]

Hello,

If I want to upgrade the version of the package in my packrat enabled library, how do I do that?

I tried the following:

packrat::off()
install.packages("pkgname")
packrat::on()
packrat::restore()

But that seems to still try to restore the version of package that was previously in packrat and not the upgraded version.

I would appreciate any help on this.

Thanks,
Shankar

[Tazinho]

From my understanding you should write

packrat::on()
install.packages("pkgname")
packrat::snapshot()

restore() instead of snapshot() would bring u to the old state of your packrat library. Also packrat::on() might not be needed since you should be in packrat mode normally always when you are in a packrat project.

[notesofdabbler]

Sorry for the very delayed response. Thanks for your suggestion.

[cderv]

Hi,

the suggestion seems to be the correct way to upgrade package in packrat lib.
Know also that packrat::packrat_lib() contains the path to the packrat private library. It can be useful.

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I edited your post to add a more readable formatting