[R-pkg-devel] Alternatives to R-devel on a Mac for package checking?

[Jonathan Greenberg]

Awesome -- the key was the "RD", so for me:

docker run -v /Users:/Users --rm -ti rocker/r-devel RD

(where, on a Mac, I was binding my Mac's /Users to the Docker's /Users directory)

Thanks, all!

--j

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 2:53 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org<mailto:edd using debian.org>> wrote:

Jonathan,

Rocker should be building weekly r-devel and drd (similar, was meant to be a
littler "lighter", effectively the same) images.

As Merlise noticed, somehow the cronjob push to the Docker Hub build service
started to fail -- this sadly happens once in a while so I manually triggered
a rebuild. They should be good now for 'R 4.0.0 to be'. Remember to invoke it
as 'RD' (for R-Devel) in the image, there is also an r-release as just 'R'.

Your case of "am on mac and need newer stuff" was also encountered last year
by Roger Koenker whom I helped a little bit via a few short emails -- leading
him to go from "zero to hero" with Docker.  We wrote a short blog post on
that which you can find at

  https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdirk.eddelbuettel.com%2Fblog%2F2019%2F08%2F05%23023_rocker_debug_example&data=01%7C01%7Cjgreenberg%40unr.edu%7C047d13c96404437a1ddc08d79a0db508%7C523b4bfc0ebd4c03b2b96f6a17fd31d8%7C1&sdata=fYy14TBshMGoU%2FbpY%2BC5dRIqSEN20EjcyMeZ4KFgSsg%3D&reserved=0

It's nice as it gives a full rundown of all steps.

Hope this helps,  Dirk

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