Transfer my renv.lock file to my DESCRIPTION file

[mhurtado13]

Hello, I have a question regarding the functionalities of renv. I have a project where I use renv and basically i have all the libraries i need for running it in a renv.lock. Now I am creating a package based on this project so following the documentation I need to import all the packages dependencies in the DESCRIPTION file from my package. As these are mostly the same ones I had in my renv.lock file, is there a way I can transfer all the libraries in renv.lock and having it automatically written as imports in the DESCRIPTION file and avoid to write one-by-one?

I have been trying to find this info but I had no success, I found it is possible to do renv::install but as far I understood this is when you already have a DESCRIPTION file with the 'imports' section completed. Sorry if I missed something in the documentation, I am really new in the field of R package development!

Hope you can help me, thanks!

[kevinushey]

There isn't anything directly available, but you could do it by hand by reading the lockfile with e.g. renv::lockfile_read(), and then constructing DESCRIPTION file entries as appropriate. I don't think there's anything extra needed from renv here so I'm going to close this issue.