If you are working inside an renv environment when you call install_deps then any missing external dependencies are installed using remotes (specifically remotes::install_deps) and it appears remotes does not use the renv cache:
Using renv::install installs dependencies and does use the cache:
We should allow (enable by default?) using the renv cache if you are in an active renv project...
If you are working inside an renv environment when you call
install_deps
then any missing external dependencies are installed usingremotes
(specificallyremotes::install_deps
) and it appearsremotes
does not use the renv cache:Using
renv::install
installs dependencies and does use the cache:We should allow (enable by default?) using the renv cache if you are in an active renv project...