r-ver

1 Quick reference

2 Overview

rocker/r-ver is alternate image to r-base, with an emphasis on reproducibility.

Compared to r-base,

  • Builds on Ubuntu LTS rather than Debian and system libraries are tied to the Ubuntu version. Images will use the most recent LTS available at the time when the corresponding R version was released.
    • Since compatibility problems are likely to occur immediately after the release of a new Ubuntu LTS, the version to be used is the one that is at least 90 days past release.
      • rocker/r-ver:4.0.0 is based on Ubuntu 20.04 (ubuntu:focal) because no interval was set at the time of the Ubuntu 20.04 release.
  • Installs a fixed version of R itself from source, rather than whatever is already packaged for Ubuntu (the r-base stack gets the latest R version as a binary from Debian unstable).
  • The only platforms available are linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 (arm64 images are experimental and only available for rocker/r-ver 4.1.0 or later).
  • Set the RStudio Public Package Manager (RSPM) as default CRAN mirror. For the amd64 platform, RSPM serves compiled Linux binaries of R packages and greatly speeds up package installs.
  • Non-latest R version images installs all R packages from a fixed snapshot of CRAN mirror at a given date. This setting ensures that the same version of the R package is installed no matter when the installation is performed.
  • Provides images that are generally smaller than the r-base series.
Note

This document is for R 4.0.0 >= images. Please check the rocker-org/rocker-versioned repository for R <= 3.6.3 images.

3 Spacial tags

3.1 devel

The devel images are based on ubuntu:latest (the latest Ubuntu LTS version) and install the latest R-devel daily snapshot.

3.2 cuda

Tags which contain cuda (e.g. rocker/r-ver:4.0.0-cuda10.1) are alias of rocker/cuda.

Warning

cuda tags will be discontinued in the future, so please use rocker/cuda instead.