rstudio package building install button uses wrong .Rprofile?

[maja]

I am developing a package and using renv. The package has it's own .Rprofile file, which was created during the renv initialisation.

I also have a user level .Rprofile, which naturally doesn't apply to this package. Shouldn't anyway. This file includes some code that uses the DBI package, which will become relevant in a second.

Here's my issue: when I use the "Install" button on the Build pane* I get the error:

Error in loadNamespace(x) : there is no package called 'DBI'
Calls: loadNamespace -> withRestarts -> withOneRestart -> doWithOneRestart
Execution halted

Which means that the "Install" button is running the wrong .Rprofile when restarting the session. The only reason I am noticing this is because using renv means I don't have this particular library installed for this project.

Obviously I could just do that and it would solve my immediate issue. But do I have this wrong or am I missing a setting somewhere?

* I believe this used to be called Build and reload, which was a more descriptive term and def made it easier to google. Also, the documentation (e.g. this recent article on posit.co) still use the old nomenclature, which is super confusing.

[Gabor]

It is also possible that RStudio uses an R session that does not load any profiles.

In any case, this sounds like a bug to me. Could you please open an issue in the rstudio/rstudio GitHub repository? Thanks!

[maja]

Thanks Gabor, I'll do that then.
And it definitely loads an .Rprofile - I know that not only because it's missing the DBI package in my case, but I also just added a message to the user .Rprofile and it printed out in the build pane.

[maja]

Here's the issue on github