image | description | size | metrics | build status |
---|---|---|---|---|
r-ver | Version-stable base R & src build tools | |||
rstudio | Adds rstudio | |||
tidyverse | Adds tidyverse & devtools | |||
verse | Adds tex & publishing-related packages |
This repository provides alternate stack to r-base
, rocker/rstudio
, rocker/hadleyverse
series, with an emphasis on reproducibility. Compared to those images, this stack:
- builds on debian stable (
debian:jessie
for versions < 3.4.0,debian:stretch
thereafter) release instead ofdebian:testing
, so no more apt-get breaking whendebian:testing
repos are updated and you had to muck with-t unstable
to get apt-get to work. - Further, this stack installs a fixed version of R itself from source, rather than whatever is already packaged for Debian (the r-base stack gets the latest R version as a binary from debian:unstable),
- and it installs all R packages from a fixed snapshot of CRAN at a given date (MRAN repos).
- provides images that are generally smaller than the r-base series
Users should include the version tag, e.g. rocker/verse:3.3.1
when reproduciblity is paramount, and use the default latest
tag, e.g. rocker/verse
for the most up-to-date R packages. All images still receive any Debian security patch updates. Note that any debian packages on these images (C libraries, compilers, etc) will likely be older/earlier versions than those found on the r-base
image series.
Using the R version tag will naturally lock the R version, and also lock the install date of any R packages on the image. For example, rocker/tidyverse:3.3.1
Docker image will always rebuild with R 3.3.1 and R packages installed from the 2016-10-31 MRAN snapshot, corresponding to the last day that version of R was the most recent release. Meanwhile rocker/tidyverse:latest
will always have both the latest R version and latest versions of the R packages.
The image rocker/r-ver
is the functional equivalent of r-base
, though slightly pared down. Currently r-ver
has tags for all minor R versions back to 3.1.0
(as far back as MRAN snapshots of CRAN are avialable); see all tags. Users can attempt to build other versions from the r-ver
Dockerfile by specifying --build-arg R_VERSION=<VERSION>
, though this is unlikely to work with very old R versions. Likewise, all non-current images are automatically pinned to a MRAN snapshot of CRAN from the last day that version was current. Users can set a custom snapshot date for the r-ver
images by using --build-arg BUILD_DATE=<DATE>
when building that Dockerfile.
The image rocker/tidyverse
is the functional equivalent of rocker/hadleyverse
, minus the LaTeX part which is moved into a downstream rocker/verse
in order to keep the tidyverse
image more compact. Now that tidyverse is a thing, the term "hadleyverse" is on the way out.
The rocker/rstudio
image builds with the latest version of RStudio by default. This can be customized by specifying the desired version in --build-arg RSTUDIO_VERSION=<VERSION>
if building locally from its Dockerfile. Note that: rocker/rstudio:latest
is the only image name in this stack that already existed. For consistency, rocker/rstudio:latest
now builds on r-ver:latest
instead of r-base:latest
. This change may break downstream images, which should either build explicitly on the debian:testing
stack by using the testing
tag (rocker/rstudio:testing
) or be patched to support this change.
These images are actively maintained. This means that while an effort is made to preserve the general function of these images over time, both these Dockerfiles and the resulting images are subject to some change over time. In particular:
-
Images are regularly re-built on Docker Hub whenever their base image changes, starting with changes to
debian
Docker image. This is the rough equivalent of runningapt-get upgrade
ondebian
, since allapt-get
commands are re-run and will pull in the most current sources. This allows the images to receive security updates to any packages installed from thedebian
repositories, but will not in general change the versions of any software and is very unlikely to break anything. -
The Dockerfiles themselves are subject to change, to improve performance, ease of use, readability, or other concerns raised in the issues. These changes should also not alter the general behavior of R or R packages on the image. These changes can be seen in the git history. The rocker-versioned repo will use its own semantic version tagging to indicate changes to this repository, with snapshots from these tags archived on Zenodo.
The Dockerfiles in this repository are licensed under the GPL 2 or later.
RStudio is a registered trademark of RStudio, Inc. The use of the trademarked term RStudio and the distribution of the RStudio binaries through the images hosted on hub.docker.com has been granted by explicit permission of RStudio. Please review RStudio's trademark use policy and address inquiries about further distribution or other questions to [email protected].