refresh: Refresh the Local Cache of Packages Available on CRAN

Description Usage Details

Description

Query the active CRAN repositories for available packages, and update the in-memory cache of those packages.

Usage

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Details

Note that R also maintains its own on-disk cache of available packages, which is used by available.packages(). Calling refresh() will force an update of both types of caches. renv prefers using an in-memory cache as on occasion the temporary directory can be slow to access (e.g. when it is a mounted network filesystem).


slopp/renv documentation built on July 6, 2019, 12:08 a.m.