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Docker images for R
Docker has official 'slim' runtimes for a number of programming languages, e.g. [python:slim](https://github.com/docker-library/python/blob/c3233a936f58bee7c6899d3e381f23ed12cfc7a8/3.7/buster/slim/Dockerfile) and [ruby:slim](https://github.com/docker-library/ruby/blob/master/2.6/buster/slim/Dockerfile). It might be useful to provide a similar thing for R also based on `debian:buster-slim`....
Ubuntu now has LTS for 22 / Jammy. However, images are not built for 22. Is this being considered by the r-docker image team?
From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76801837/docker-cannot-build-my-r-package-fails-to-install-r-dependencies. Do we have a philosophy around whether the `r-base` image should be considered a "batteries-included" image, so that the more commonly-used R packages will function, or is it...
especially for people using Apple Silicon, it might be convenient to have a multiarch image with arm support (ie. `linux/arm64` or something). If I understand this correctly, using the existing...
see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-12786 tldr; stringi shall try to build icu69 and fail, therefore installing from zypper eases installing stringr
It might be nice if the docker container set a default CRAN mirror in the site .RProfile, to either cloud.r-project.org or cran.rstudio.org. There are billed as an opinionated builds, so...