Update Packages — update • renv

Update packages which are currently out-of-date. Currently, only CRAN and GitHub package sources are supported.

update(
  packages = NULL,
  ...,
  library = NULL,
  rebuild = FALSE,
  check = FALSE,
  prompt = interactive(),
  project = NULL
)

Arguments

packages	A character vector of R packages to update. When `NULL`, all packages within the required libraries will be updated.
...	Unused arguments, reserved for future expansion. If any arguments are matched to `...`, `renv` will signal an error.
library	The R library to be used. When `NULL`, the active project library will be used instead.
rebuild	Force packages to be rebuilt, thereby bypassing any installed versions of the package available in the cache? This can either be a boolean (indicating that the requested package(s) should be rebuilt), or a vector of package names indicating which packages should be rebuilt.
check	Boolean; check for package updates without actually installing available updates?
prompt	Boolean; prompt the user before taking any action? For backwards compatibility, `confirm` is accepted as an alias for `prompt`.
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.

Value

A named list of package records which were installed by renv.

Details

Updates will only be checked from the same source -- for example, if a package was installed from GitHub, but a newer version is available on CRAN, that updated version will not be seen.

Examples

if (FALSE) {

# update the 'dplyr' package
renv::update("dplyr")

}