[R-sig-Fedora] R 4.0 for CentOS 7

Iñaki Ucar |uc@r @end|ng |rom |edor@project@org
Sat Oct 31 23:05:43 CET 2020


On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 20:52, H <agents using meddatainc.com> wrote:
>
> Understood. Since I am running CentOS 7, I guess I could create a CentOS 8 docker container and install R in that? I am not planning to upgrade the system to CentOS 8.

Of course, you can do that. With podman it's even easier. But then I'd
use Fedora as the base image instead, because you'll enjoy binary
installations for most of CRAN via Copr [1]. You even have a docker
image ready to go [2]. (Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of that
project).

[1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/cran/
[2] https://hub.docker.com/r/enchufa2/cran2copr/dockerfile

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Iñaki Úcar



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