differences for PR #44

Author: actions-user

03-reproducible-dev-environment.md

@@ -249,10 +249,15 @@ renv::install("my_package")
 Let's install the packages we need for this script. At this time, we need `jsonlite`, `lubridate` and `ggplot2`. 
 
 ```r
-renv::install("jsonlite", "lubridate", "ggplot2"), 
+renv::install("jsonlite", "lubridate", "ggplot2")
 ```
 
-I can also install packages in any of the usual ways, i.e., `install.packages()` or `pak::pkg_install("ggplot2")`, but you'll have to complete an additional step to update the `lock` file enumerating packages and dependencies. A call to `renv::snapshot()` should suffice. 
+We can also install packages in any of the usual ways, i.e., `install.packages()` or `pak::pkg_install("ggplot2")` and `renv` will intercept and install it in the environment.
+Then we need to run the `snapshot()` function to update the `renv.lock` file with all the packages installed.
+
+```r
+renv::snapshot()
+```
 
 Now we can open the `renv.lock` file and see that it stores a lot of machine-readable information in plain text. However, you could also <kbd>COMMAND</kbd>+<kbd>F</kbd> (MacOS) or <kbd>CTRL</kbd>+<kbd>F</kbd> (Windows) to double check that the packages installed are now listed. 
 
@@ -266,19 +271,26 @@ Let's delete the packages we just installed and then restore them using the exis
 remove.packages(c("jsonlite", "lubridate", "ggplot2"))
 ```
 
+
 If you attempt to load these packages now, your get an error
 
 ```r
-library("jsonlite)
+library("jsonlite")
 ```
 
+::::::::::::::: instructor
+
+If the call to load `jsonlite` succeeds they might need to restart the R session because they loaded it previously and it is cached.
+
+:::::::::::::::::::::::::::
+
 ```output
 Error in library(jsonlite) : there is no package called ‘jsonlite’
 ```
 
 To restore the packages from the `renv.lock`, 
 ```r
-renv::restore("renv.lock")
+renv::restore()
 ```
 
 If you attempt to load these packages now, it will work!
@@ -359,7 +371,7 @@ We are now setup to run our code from the newly created R project
 
 ```bash
 
-(venv_spacewalks) $ **Rscript eva_data_analysis.R**
+(venv_spacewalks) $ Rscript eva_data_analysis.R
 
 ```
 

md5sum.txt

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
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+"episodes/03-reproducible-dev-environment.md" "f8582900accf8ab6bf99d1986395fa6f" "site/built/03-reproducible-dev-environment.md" "2026-03-24"
 "episodes/04-code-readability.md" "9ded137f2475f805c5bf250eb6a474c5" "site/built/04-code-readability.md" "2025-11-26"
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@@ -23,4 +23,3 @@
 "learners/ethical-environmental-considerations.md" "a21d2780d9d1fc86bd1104a214edbd26" "site/built/ethical-environmental-considerations.md" "2025-09-30"
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-"renv/profiles/lesson-requirements/renv.lock" NA "site/built/renv.lock" "2026-03-24"