Tim,
On 22 November 2019 at 12:03, Tim Head wrote: | One language we support is R. We let people choose which version they need | and because we are based on Ubuntu we use the packages provided on | https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html to install R 3.5 | and 3.6 (R 3.4 comes as part of Ubuntu bionic). Hm, I will be frank. I am a little surprised that ever worked. We offer - in each distro release exactly one version. So R 3.4.* from bionic. - by opting into add-on repos like the CRAN one, or c2d4u, or ... additional ones _but generally only exactly one current version_. So R 3.6.1 now. We (as providers of these repos) never promised other interim version. | With repo2docker we are in a slightly weird position where we want to | enable container image builds that worked 6months or 12months ago to also | work today. This means if a user built a container with R 3.5 in the past You could maybe base that on the versioned Rocker container (the "r-ver" stack) which is also tagged to corresponding dates at MRAN. No support for binary packages though. Somewhat simpler but without MRAN tagging are r-base releases. These should still be at hub.docker.com: edd@rob:~$ docker images | grep ^r-base r-base 3.6.1 4e55790c88ae 4 months ago 642MB r-base latest 4e55790c88ae 4 months ago 642MB r-base 3.6.0 6dfc0dec6d66 6 months ago 662MB r-base 3.5.3 62c848eeb175 8 months ago 649MB r-base 3.5.2 578644a0540c 10 months ago 650MB r-base 3.5.1 93ca38345db2 16 months ago 678MB r-base 3.5.0 fb43e8fe1667 17 months ago 698MB r-base 3.4.3 d1e1c25485af 20 months ago 670MB r-base 3.4.2 02d3b7e00020 2 years ago 651MB r-base 3.4.0 5a6c58403310 2 years ago 656MB r-base 3.3.3 88436550cddc 2 years ago 635MB r-base 3.3.1 7ba1baf9d8bb 3 years ago 657MB edd@rob:~$ Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
