What is checkpoint supposed to do? about starters HOT 7 CLOSED

Now I run the setup for checkpoint/packrat at the very end so it doesn't prevent other things from happening but I'm not sure how to check the setup was correct.

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It's doing some intiial setup of package caching by running checkpoint::checkpoint but it doesn't have to - we can create an R file somewhere that contains the checkpoint start and a link to the relevant vignette

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Not sure I understand what that R file would be?

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nowadays shouldn't one ditch packrat (and maybe even checkpoint) in favor of renv?

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I haven't evaluated it yet, but I imagine so
Note that checkpoint enables installing packages from a fixed point in time

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Ok but deprecating "packrat" as an option is probably an excellent idea to save time. I'll see what I'll do reg checkpoint that I never really got.

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checkpoint is no longer supported by starters.

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