Exercises

# change to the directory where you want the repo first! use the "cd PATH" command to do this
git clone git@github.com:lmu-osc/introduction-to-renv-exercises.git
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title: "Exercises"
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Put what you've learned into practice with hands-on walkthroughs. Each exercise provides step-by-step instructions and highlights common pitfalls.

- **[Init and Snapshot](example-init-snapshot.qmd)** — Initialize {renv} in a project and take a snapshot of its dependencies.
- **[Restore](example-restore.qmd)** — Recreate a project environment from an existing lockfile.
- **[Explicitly Record](example-explicit-record.qmd)** — Manually record packages in the lockfile using `dependencies()` and `record()`.

These exercises use the [intro-to-renv-exercises](https://github.com/lmu-osc/introduction-to-renv-exercises) companion repository. Forking and cloning it is recommended but not required.

::: {.callout-note}

Make sure to download the `introduction-to-renv-exercises` repository first! To do that, you can follow the previously-learned directions for creating a new RStudio project, and use this link `https://github.com/lmu-osc/introduction-to-renv-exercises`.

Alternatively, at the command line:

```bash
# change to the directory where you want the repo first! use the "cd PATH" command to do this
git clone git@github.com:lmu-osc/introduction-to-renv-exercises.git
```

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