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Add support for R 4.0

See original GitHub issue

Proposed change

Add support for R 4.0 to the R version map at https://github.com/jupyter/repo2docker/blob/master/repo2docker/buildpacks/r.py#L71

Alternatives:

Installation via conda, but there the latest version is also 3.6.
Use holepunch and the rocker/binder image, though no 4.0.0 tag there either yet.

Alternative options

IMO: None.

Who would use this feature?

People demonstrating latest R features, or relying on latest packages requiring R 4.0, or trying to match their own environment closely.

How much effort will adding it take?

Not much, _if/when the version is available via the default Ubuntu sources.

Who can do this work?

Anyone with experience in running repo2docker tests and some R experience for testing.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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betatimcommented, Sep 15, 2020

Following up my comment from May 2rd: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-debian/2019-November/003121.html is the message that made me think that we got lucky with using the different R versions from that PPA ever worked.

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scottyhqcommented, May 27, 2020

Ah, thanks @betatim - i missed those recent changes since I was using the latest release locally (jupyter-repo2docker==0.11).