The openanalytics/r-base Docker image used by ShinyProxy is based on R version 3.4.4 from March this year. This morning I tried building an image that includes the pacman package. This build failed because pacman now requires R version 3.5 or greater.
Since the openanalytics image is largely based upon the rocker r-base image (which currently runs R 3.5.1), I’ve tried to update it with a new version, but I’m not experienced enough to get the Dockerfile working. Here’s my attempt:
# Could be ubuntu:18.04. Why not Debian as in rocker/r-base?
FROM ubuntu:16.04
MAINTAINER "Tobias Verbeke" tobias.verbeke@openanalytics.eu
## Add user to 'staff' group, granting them write privileges to /usr/local/lib/R/site.library
RUN useradd docker \
&& mkdir /home/docker \
&& chown docker:docker /home/docker \
&& addgroup docker staff
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
ed \
less \
locales \
vim-tiny \
wget \
ca-certificates \
apt-transport-https \
gsfonts \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
## I added this to get apt-key adv working:
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -my wget gnupg
## Configure default locale, see https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker/issues/19
RUN echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen \
&& locale-gen en_US.utf8 \
&& /usr/sbin/update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ENV LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8
ENV LANG en_US.UTF-8
## Here I changed the repository for the new version of R, because I don't understand 'pinning'.
RUN echo sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/'
RUN apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
ENV R_BASE_VERSION 3.5.1
## Now install R and littler, and create a link for littler in /usr/local/bin
## Also set a default CRAN repo, and make sure littler knows about it too
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
littler\
r-cran-littler \
r-base=${R_BASE_VERSION}* \
r-base-dev=${R_BASE_VERSION}* \
r-recommended=${R_BASE_VERSION}* \
&& echo 'options(repos = c(CRAN = "https://cloud.r-project.org/"), download.file.method = "libcurl")' >> /etc/R/Rprofile.site \
&& echo 'source("/etc/R/Rprofile.site")' >> /etc/littler.r \
&& ln -s /usr/share/doc/littler/examples/install.r /usr/local/bin/install.r \
&& ln -s /usr/share/doc/littler/examples/install2.r /usr/local/bin/install2.r \
&& ln -s /usr/share/doc/littler/examples/installGithub.r /usr/local/bin/installGithub.r \
&& ln -s /usr/share/doc/littler/examples/testInstalled.r /usr/local/bin/testInstalled.r \
&& install.r docopt \
&& rm -rf /tmp/downloaded_packages/ /tmp/*.rds \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
CMD ["R"]
# system libraries of general use
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
sudo \
pandoc \
pandoc-citeproc \
libcurl4-gnutls-dev \
libcairo2-dev \
libxt-dev \
libssl-dev \
libssh2-1-dev \
libxml2-dev \
libssl1.0.0 \
libpq-dev \
git
# basic shiny functionality
RUN R -e "install.packages(c('pacman'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')"
# copy the app to the image
RUN mkdir /root/app
COPY benchmarking /root/app
COPY Rprofile.site /usr/lib/R/etc/
EXPOSE 3838
CMD ["R", "-e", "shiny::runApp('/root/app')"]
The Docker build fails when trying to install R and littler with the following error:
E: Version '3.5.1*' for 'r-base' was not found
E: Version '3.5.1*' for 'r-base-dev' was not found
E: Version '3.5.1*' for 'r-recommended' was not found
Can anyone help me in the right direction here? Or should I rather open an issue on Github? I think this will be an issue for many ShinyProxy users going forward. Should I attempt a quick fix by installing old packages or compiling them from source?
