r-hub/rhub-linux-builders

Using Docker in R-Hub - section for Rockerverse paper

nuest opened this issue · 2 comments

nuest commented

👋 Hi there! Would you be interested in contributing some experiences and reasoning (e.g. why not to use Rocker images only) on using Docker for running R-Hub in this article that is currently written?

https://github.com/nuest/rockerverse-paper

See also nuest/rockerverse-paper#3 and nuest/rockerverse-paper#8 (conference call later today)

gaborcsardi commented

why not to use Rocker images only

  • we have a lot more OSes and configs, so it makes sense to make them more uniform
  • we wanted to have common upstream images, e.g. debian -> debian-gcc -> debian-gcc-devel
  • we run as a regular user, so this needs a different config
  • we have a lot more software, e.g. pandoc and a fairly complete LaTeX installation
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nuest commented

Thanks for the input, makes sense!

I would probably add to the list

  • we want environments that are close to what CRAN does/has
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