renv | R Observatory

Overview

About

Maintained by Kevin UsheyFirst published 2019-10-2556 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A dependency management toolkit for R. Using 'renv', you can create and manage project-local R libraries, save the state of these libraries to a 'lockfile', and later restore your library as required. Together, these tools can help make your projects more isolated, portable, and reproducible.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("renv", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("rstudio/renv")

Development version from rstudio/renv. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-renv

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-renv

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-renv

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 19.1 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.42

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

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ERROR2026-06-08
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OK2026-05-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-29
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-28
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NOTE2026-03-28
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WARNING2026-03-20
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-17
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 381 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 6%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 74%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

4.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #189 · ~13K/day · ~396.3K/mo

Releases R versions

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265.8K30 days

934.2K90 days

4.8M1 year

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Also on14.9K r2u41 autocran47.4K conda_forge147 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ rstudio/renv

1,159Stars

170Forks

217Open issues

2Open PRs

23Releases

3,345Commits

79Contributors

License MIT · 3,345 commits · Last activity 2026-07-15 · +0.5% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-22 · 1,0682026-07-17 · 1,159

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/renv on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

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Governance and community (1)

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Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (27)

BiocManager clicompilercovr cpp11 curl devtools generics gitcreds jsonlite jsonvalidate knitr miniUI modules packrat pak R6 remotes reticulate rmarkdown rstudioapi shiny testthat uuid waldo yaml webfakes

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

63direct

35indirect

and 15 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 55,759 (88%)Rd 3,999 (6%)Vignettes 2,011 (3%)Markdown 902 (1%)Other 289 (0%)JSON 43 (0%)YAML 4 (0%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 124 max
Test cases: 761 / 0.42 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

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Expression

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Tests / Examples

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Functions

1638 45 exported

Complexity

3.1 avg / 124 max

Call network

1638 nodes / 5273 edges

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Kevin Ushey

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Kevin Ushey

Author, Maintainer

Hadley Wickham

Author · added in 1.0.0

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.17.0

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.17.0

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.8.0 to 0.13.2

RStudio, PBC

no longer listed · 0.14.0 to 0.16.0

Package Timeline

56 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-10-25
Total releases: 56 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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