diff --git a/R/scan-deps.R b/R/scan-deps.R
index e841869d..57cb3d8f 100644
--- a/R/scan-deps.R
+++ b/R/scan-deps.R
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ scan_deps <- function(path = ".") {
   if (file.exists(file.path(path, "_pkgdown.yml"))) {
     paths <- c(paths, "_pkgdown.yml")
   }
+  if (file.exists(file.path(path, "renv.lock"))) {
+    paths <- c(paths, "renv.lock")
+  }
   full_paths <- normalizePath(file.path(path, paths))
   deps_list <- lapply(full_paths, scan_path_deps)
   deps <- do.call("rbind", c(list(scan_deps_df()), deps_list))
@@ -251,7 +254,8 @@ scan_path_should_cache <- function(paths) {
   ! basename(paths) %in% c(
     "_bookdown.yml",
     "_pkgdown.yml",
-    "_quarto.yml"
+    "_quarto.yml",
+    "renv.lock"
   )
 }
 
@@ -267,6 +271,7 @@ scan_path_deps_do <- function(code, path) {
     "_bookdown.yml" = scan_path_deps_do_bookdown(code, path),
     "_pkgdown.yml" = scan_path_deps_do_pkgdown(code, path),
     "_quarto.yml" = scan_path_deps_do_quarto(code, path),
+    "renv.lock" = scan_path_deps_do_renv_lock(code, path),
     stop("Cannot parse ", ext, " file for dependencies, internal error")
   )
 }
@@ -1005,4 +1010,12 @@ scan_path_deps_do_quarto <- function(code, path) {
   # Maybe that's too opinionated?
 }
 
+scan_path_deps_do_renv_lock <- function(code, path) {
+  scan_deps_df(
+    path = path,
+    package = "renv",
+    code = NA_character_
+  )
+}
+
 # -------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/tests/testthat/_snaps/scan-deps.md b/tests/testthat/_snaps/scan-deps.md
index 9a6efac5..c0a6db53 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/_snaps/scan-deps.md
+++ b/tests/testthat/_snaps/scan-deps.md
@@ -381,14 +381,15 @@
       1 fixtures/scan/NAMESPACE stats stats   *       prod  stats         1            1          1
       2 fixtures/scan/NAMESPACE utils utils   *       prod  utils         1            1          1
 
-# scan_path_deps_do_{bookdown,pkgdown,quarto}
+# scan_path_deps_do_{bookdown,pkgdown,quarto,renv_lock}
 
     Code
       scan_deps(project)[]
     Output
-      # A data frame: 2 x 9
+      # A data frame: 3 x 9
         path                   ref      package  version type  code  start_row start_column start_byte
         <chr>                  <chr>    <chr>    <chr>   <chr> <chr>     <int>        <int>      <int>
       1 bookdown/_bookdown.yml bookdown bookdown *       prod  <NA>          1            1          1
       2 _pkgdown.yml           pkgdown  pkgdown  *       prod  <NA>          1            1          1
+      3 renv.lock              renv     renv     *       prod  <NA>          1            1          1
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/fixtures/scan/project-2/renv.lock b/tests/testthat/fixtures/scan/project-2/renv.lock
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-scan-deps.R b/tests/testthat/test-scan-deps.R
index fdecc2e1..5daaa120 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-scan-deps.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-scan-deps.R
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ test_that("scan_path_deps_do_namespace", {
   })
 })
 
-test_that("scan_path_deps_do_{bookdown,pkgdown,quarto}", {
+test_that("scan_path_deps_do_{bookdown,pkgdown,quarto,renv_lock}", {
   local_reproducible_output(width = 500)
   project <- test_path("fixtures/scan/project-2")
   expect_snapshot({