Configure renv to ignore system library

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When I am using renv to manage packages for a project, I've noticed that if a matching version for a package from the lockfile is found in the system library, it is not installed when renv::restore() is called. It then doesn't appear in the "project library". Of course everything works by loading from the system library but I would have expected it to install everything to the project's folder.

I can get renv::restore() to install to the project library by using the library argument of restore.

My question is why does renv do this by default, and can I configure renv to ignore the system library?

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You can accomplish this by enabling the renv sandbox -- see:

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