[R-sig-Debian] getting started with rocker

[Luben Dimov]

Dirk,

First time docker and rocker user here (and no programming expertise). After
trying on and off for several months, I managed to install and run rocker on my
Linux Mint, with RStudio running in the web browser
at http://localhost:8787/ and I was finally able to figure out how to access
files, graphs, etc., that I save in RStudio at localhost:8787 by mounting a
folder from my host machine in the container, so files are saved on my system. 

A newbie question... Running this in the Linux terminal:

sudo docker run --rm -ti rocker/r-ver

starts the latest version of R, the 4 .6.0 (2026-04-24)

But running either:
sudo docker run --rm -ti -e PASSWORD=yourpassword -p 8787:8787 -v ~/rstudio-
projects:/home/rstudio rocker/tidyverse
or
sudo docker run --rm -ti -e PASSWORD=yourpassword -p 8787:8787 -v ~/rstudio-
projects:/home/rstudio rocker/rstudio

and then opening the localhost:8787, shows that it is running R version 4.4.1
(2024-06-14)

How do I update the R version in the rocker container?

Thank you for your help!
Luben

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