[SOLVED] Using renv but still system library active

Using renv but still system library active

I'm just new to renv and tried to find something similar to Pythons virtualenv. So renv seems to offer what I need. I also tried packrat, but renv can load the library when one is not in that project folder.

When starting R in the renv project directory it loads my package versions for rasterVis_0.51.5 correctly.

Project '/gpfs0/home/user/venv/modelling' loaded. [renv 0.15.5]
>.libPaths()
[1] "/gpfs0/home/user/venv/modelling/renv/library/R-4.0/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"              
[2] "/gpfs0/global/software/easybuild-broadwell/software/R/4.0.4-foss-2020b-2/lib64/R/library"

after loading rasterVis

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.4 (2021-02-15)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

Matrix products: default
BLAS/LAPACK: /gpfs0/global/software/easybuild-broadwell/software/OpenBLAS/0.3.12-GCC-10.2.0/lib/libopenblas_haswellp-r0.3.12.so

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] rasterVis_0.51.5 lattice_0.20-41 

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_1.0.6          codetools_0.2-18    png_0.1-7          
 [4] viridisLite_0.3.0   zoo_1.8-9           grid_4.0.4         
 [7] renv_0.15.5         raster_3.6-14       hexbin_1.28.2      
[10] sp_1.6-0            latticeExtra_0.6-29 RColorBrewer_1.1-3 
[13] tools_4.0.4         jpeg_0.1-8.1        parallel_4.0.4     
[16] compiler_4.0.4      terra_1.7-3

When I'm in a parallel directory, starting R and loading renv manually by renv::load('~/venv/modelling/renv') it does not load my renv but my system package versions.

> renv::load('~/venv/modelling/renv')
* Project '~/venv/modelling/renv' loaded. [renv 0.15.5]
> .libPaths()
[1] "/gpfs0/home/user/venv/modelling/renv/renv/library/R-4.0/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"         
[2] "/gpfs0/global/software/easybuild-broadwell/software/R/4.0.4-foss-2020b-2/lib64/R/library"

after loading rasterVis

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.4 (2021-02-15)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

Matrix products: default
BLAS/LAPACK: /gpfs0/global/software/easybuild-broadwell/software/OpenBLAS/0.3.12-GCC-10.2.0/lib/libopenblas_haswellp-r0.3.12.so

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] rasterVis_0.50      latticeExtra_0.6-29 lattice_0.20-41    
[4] terra_1.1-4         raster_3.4-5        sp_1.4-5           

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_1.0.6         codetools_0.2-18   zoo_1.8-9          png_0.1-7         
 [5] viridisLite_0.3.0  grid_4.0.4         renv_0.15.5        hexbin_1.28.2     
 [9] RColorBrewer_1.1-2 tools_4.0.4        jpeg_0.1-8.1       parallel_4.0.4    
[13] compiler_4.0.4

Do you know why it loads correctly renv but not my corresponsing library versions?

Solution

In this call:

renv::load('~/venv/modelling/renv')

I believe you want to use this instead:

renv::load('~/venv/modelling')

since the path supplied to renv::load() should be the project root, not the renv folder within the project.