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Rstudio v2022.02.2+485 and R 4.2 Dockerfile update

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sebacea commented

Hi I am using r/rstudio/Dockerfiles/v1.3.1073/Dockerfile but needing an update of RStudio and R. For R it is necessary to update to ubuntu focal. I tried to update the Dockerfile that I personally updated in the past without success. See #706

Thanks @seth-priya @gerrith3

gerrith3 commented

Hi @sebacea can you give us any insight into your use/needs of this update? We tend to prioritize Power customers/solutions first, especially those tied to revenue, but we do try to get to everything that we can. Sometimes we say "it is a mere matter of priorities" and figuring out the priority amongst the differing requests is the challenge. Any insight you can provide towards this can help boost the priority of this request. --Thanks!

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sebacea commented

Hi, I'm user of a server from IBM Academics Initiative. It is there where I am trying to create de container. Thanks!

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seth-priya commented

@sebacea just to let you know I have been looking at this a bit in the background and I have been able to update the base image to focal, install the right dependencies and build R 4.2. The RStudio build seems to have a few issues atleast : a) it integrates with crashpad for crash reporting feature and that/the version that is integrated does not have ppc64le support, it fails in the "mini_chromium" module and since this comes from the chromium tree https://github.com/chromium/mini_chromium, which again does not have ppc64le support, I don't expect that this will be an easy one to solve and hence I have disable the crash reporting feature for now; b) it is pulling the x86 specific nodejs binaries - this should be an easy fix once we can trace down the exact origin.

With the above, I have been able to build the rstudio-core, rstudio-r, rstudio-server-core, rsession, rserver and other sub-components of these. It is failing while building gwt_build, which is a java based component

I will share more updates as I have them

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sebacea commented
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seth-priya commented

@sebacea can you please confirm if disabling crashpad will work for you or do you specifically need the crash reporting feature (that is likely to add significantly to the complexity)? We should hopefully be able to get you a working version without crashpad in the next couple of weeks, is that good enough for you from a timeline perspective as well?

sebacea commented

@seth-priya did you commit the Dockerfile you used for updating to focal and R 4.2?

seth-priya commented

@sebacea not yet because as I mentioned there are still unresolved issues in building the java components, I can try to get a draft PR with whatever I have by Tuesday/Wednesday if I am not able to solve other issues by then

seth-priya commented

@sebacea this should be address with #2277 , please let us know in case of issues, thanks

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sebacea commented

I confirm that the Dockerfile is running. Thanks!

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