renv doesn't capture additional repos from install.packages(..., repos = "<repo>")

[gowerc]

I think this might be a regression as this was apparently implemented in #1175

If you installed a package via install.packages(..., repos = "<repo>") then <repo> isn't captured anywhere in the lock file and the lock file is thus not able to be restored.

Code to reproduce:

# Set repo where most recent version of renv is available from, but not too recent so we can install newer packages
options(repos = "https://packagemanager.posit.co/cran/2025-02-08")

install.packages("renv")
renv::init()   # and then Restart R

# Ensure correct url is stored in the initial lock file
options(repos = "https://packagemanager.posit.co/cran/2025-02-08")
renv::snapshot()

# data.table v1.17.0 was released on Feb 22, 2025 so won't be availabel in the 8th Feb snapshot used above
# May need to adjust environment variables to not link to an already installed/cached version
install.packages("data.table", repos = "https://packagemanager.posit.co/cran/2025-03-03" )
# insert a `library(data.table)` somewhere for R env to pick it up
renv::snapshot()

Then if you inspect the lock file:

    "Repositories": [
      {
        "Name": "CRAN",
        "URL": "https://packagemanager.posit.co/cran/2025-02-08"
      }
    ]
  },
........

    "data.table": {
      "Package": "data.table",
      "Version": "1.17.0",
      "Source": "Repository",
      "Title": "Extension of `data.frame`",
      "Depends": [
        "R (>= 3.3.0)"
      ],
      "Imports": [
        "methods"
      ],
      "Suggests": [
        "bit64 (>= 4.0.0)",
        "bit (>= 4.0.4)",
        "R.utils",
        "xts",
        "zoo (>= 1.8-1)",
        "yaml",
        "knitr",
        "markdown"
      ],
      "Description": "Fast aggregation of large data (e.g. 100GB in RAM), fast ordered joins, fast add/modify/delete of columns by group using no copies at all, list columns, friendly and fast character-separated-value read/write. Offers a natural and flexible syntax, for faster development.",
      "License": "MPL-2.0 | file LICENSE",
      "URL": "https://r-datatable.com, https://Rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table, https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table",
      "BugReports": "https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues",
      "VignetteBuilder": "knitr",
      "Encoding": "UTF-8",
      "ByteCompile": "TRUE",
      "Authors" : <removed for brevity>
      "Authors@R" : <removed for brevity>
      "NeedsCompilation": "yes",
      "Maintainer": "Tyson Barrett <[email protected]>",
      "Repository": "CRAN"
    },

Key bit is "Repository" still points to "CRAN" even though the current CRAN url does not contain this version of data.table

[kevinushey]

Thanks; I can confirm the issue -- I'll investigate.