Getting Started with renvvv

Standard renv::restore() stops at the first package failure, leaving your environment partially restored. renvvv continues past failures, retries them individually, and reports what couldn’t be installed—so you don’t lose progress on packages that can be restored.

Installation

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("MiguelRodo/renvvv")

Core Functions

library(renvvv)

# Restore lockfile versions — continues past individual failures
renvvv_restore()

# Update all packages to their latest available versions
renvvv_update()

# Restore lockfile versions, then update to latest
renvvv_restore_and_update()

All three functions accept the same filtering arguments:

# Skip CRAN/Bioconductor packages (process only GitHub)
renvvv_restore(non_github = FALSE)

# Skip GitHub packages (process only CRAN/Bioconductor)
renvvv_restore(github = FALSE)

# Skip specific packages by name
renvvv_restore(skip = c("problematic_pkg"))

Bioconductor Packages

By default, Bioconductor packages are installed via renv::install("bioc::package"). To use BiocManager::install() instead, pass biocmanager_install = TRUE to any of the three functions.

Automatic Project Activation

If you’re in a directory with renv.lock but the project isn’t active:

Interactive session: you will be prompted to activate.
Non-interactive session: the project activates automatically.

Comparison with Base renv

Feature	`renv`	`renvvv`
Stops on first restore error	Yes	No — continues and retries
Reports all failures at once	No	Yes
Filter packages by source	No	Yes (`github` / `non_github`)
Skip individual packages	No	Yes (`skip`)
Batch update to latest versions	No	Yes (`renvvv_update()`)