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Please describe your feature request
‘renv’ already supports box::use() declarations for dependency discovery via static analysis.
However, this misses all package dependencies declared inside modules that are imported via box::use(), in particular non-local modules (local modules would presumably be searched by ‘renv’ anyway). Adding support for the discovery of transitive package dependencies declared inside modules used by a project to ‘renv’ should be feasible, but would require more complex static analysis, in combination with a reimplementation of the module finding algorithm used by ‘box’.
A better solution would be for ‘box’ to expose supporting infrastructure that could be invoked by ‘renv’. This is kind of “safe”, since a ‘renv’ project that uses ‘box’ presumably has ‘box’ installed anyway, so ‘renv’ could soft-depend on it (via Enhances; or it might not even need that?).