Dependency persistence issue

[EricZnevergiveup]

Dear maintainers,

I'm encountering a dependency persistence issue while using the gcamdata package. Here's the specific situation:

Following the official documentation (https://jgcri.github.io/gcamdata/articles/getting-started/getting-started.html), I installed the required dependencies for gcamdata using renv. After the initial installation, I was able to successfully run the example code from the video tutorial, and the driver_drake() function worked properly.

However, after closing the gcamdata Rproj and restarting my computer, when I reopened the gcamdata Rproj and activated renv using renv::activate(), the following issues occurred:

1. RStudio indicated that one or more packages were not installed
2. After installing these supposedly missing packages as prompted
3. While I can start gcamdata using devtools::load_all()
4. The drake package is still reported as missing

I would like to ask:

1. Is this a known issue with the renv setup?
2. Are there additional steps needed to ensure drake remains available between sessions?
3. How should I properly maintain the project dependencies, particularly ensuring the persistence of the drake package?

Thank you for your help!