renv.lock logging global packages as well

[mansi2504]

I am new to renv and setting up project environments in R.
I want specific version of certain libraries in my renv.lock() and here's the workflow that I am using:

1. Initialising an environment.
2. Loading my packages.
3. Snapshot.

library(renv)
renv::init()

library(lidR)
library(tidyverse)
library(GGally)
library(tidymodels)
library(randomForest)
library(patchwork)
library(stringr)
library(caret)

renv::snapshot()

But the generated lock file contains all global packages also, which I don't want in my lock file.

[kevinushey]

renv includes the packages you use, as well as their recursive dependencies, within the lockfile. So:

library(renv)

packages <- c(
  "lidR",
  "tidyverse",
  "GGally",
  "tidymodels",
  "randomForest",
  "patchwork",
  "stringr",
  "caret"
)

deps <- tools::package_dependencies(packages, recursive = TRUE)
sort(unique(unlist(deps)))

gives a total of 177 recursive package dependencies.