update_packages(force = TRUE) does not reinstall package

[dpprdan]

update_packages(force = TRUE) does not reinstall a package, which it should, if I understand the documentation correctly.

Force installation, even if the remote state has not changed since the previous install.

It seems to me that the force argument in update.package_deps() is not evalutated for packages where object$diff == CURRENT?

library(remotes)
update_packages("lookup", force = TRUE)
install_github("jimhester/lookup")
#> Using github PAT from envvar GITHUB_PAT
#> Skipping install of 'lookup' from a github remote, the SHA1 (eba63db4) has not changed since last install.
#>   Use `force = TRUE` to force installation

^{Created on 2020-07-15 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}

Session info

devtools::session_info()
#> - Session info ---------------------------------------------------------------
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#>  os       Windows 10 x64              
#>  system   x86_64, mingw32             
#>  ui       RTerm                       
#>  language en                          
#>  collate  German_Germany.1252         
#>  ctype    German_Germany.1252         
#>  tz       Europe/Berlin               
#>  date     2020-07-15                  
#> 
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#>  R6            2.4.1      2019-11-12 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)                
#>  remotes     * 2.1.1.9001 2020-07-15 [1] Github (r-lib/remotes@76c05ce)
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#>  stringi       1.4.6      2020-02-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)                
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#>  testthat      2.3.2      2020-03-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)                
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#>  yaml          2.2.1      2020-02-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)                
#> 
#> [1] C:/Users/daniel/Documents/.R/win-library
#> [2] C:/Program Files/R/R-4.0.2/library

[dpprdan]

This affects both CRAN and non-CRAN packages.

[jimhester]

Closed by e09a5dc, the force argument doesn't really make sense for update_packages().

[dpprdan]

the force argument doesn't really make sense for update_packages().

@jimhester I've found it quite useful (in theory at least) to reinstall a bunch of packages without having to know which remote (CRAN, GitHub, GitLab, ...) or repo ("is {lookup} from 'jimhester' or 'r-lib'?) they are from. Is there another way to do this easily?