Resuming a renv project without restoring the environment

Steps for resuming a renv project when you don’t care about restoring the previous package environment.

• Make life easier with utils::install.packages(c("usethis", "gitcreds")) to avoid problems with GitHub credentials if you use GitHub packages.

• Install renv anew and then do renv::record("renv@1.1.4") or whatever to record that version.

• Install the packages used by the project. We can use renv::update() or install as needed as we run code in the project’s files.

• Take a renv::snapshot().

Note that the way to record an updated version of R is with renv::snapshot().