renv does not detect package as used

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I have a basic question about renv.

renv does not detect the package "kableExtra" as being used in my project, even though it is. Therefore, it was not detected with renv::init().

I want to install and track an older version of kableExtra (1.3.4). If I use renv::install("kableExtra@1.3.4"), nothing happens. I can force it with "renv::install("kableExtra@1.3.4",lock=TRUE)", but since renv::status() shows used = '?', renv::snapshot() will remove it from the lock file. Can I force renv to consider a package as used?

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renv normally works by scanning through your code and looking for packages that your require() or library() in.

having library(kableExtra) somewhere in your code should do the trick.

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Many thanks. It was an old piece of code with

packages <- c('bigstatsr', 'cli', 'doParallel', 'foreach', 'ggtext', 'kableExtra', 'minpack.lm','tidyverse', 'XML')
lapply(packages, require, character.only = TRUE)

For some reason renv recognized all the packages except kableExtra. library() for each package solved the problem. Thanks again!