packrat: remove older package versions from src directory

Question

My packrat.src directory contains multiple *.tar.gz files for various libraries.

So for example, the subfolder for broom looks like this:

broom
├── broom_0.4.1.tar.gz
└── broom_0.4.4.tar.gz

What is the correct way to remove, say the older package version, once I checked that that everything is running fine with the newest version?

I checked packrat:clean(), but this seems to have a different purpose.

Answer 1

Delete all sources within the src folder and re-run packrat::snapshot(), which should provide a clean src directory without old, unused source files.