On 10/31/2020 06:05 PM, Iñaki Ucar wrote: > On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 20:52, H <age...@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 > OK, since I am already running CentOS, I may still stick with CentOS but your point is well-taken. I also prefer to define my containers myself so I have full control - and understand - how they are set up...
I have come across COPR but it is not among my repos, I need to learn more. Thank you! _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Fedora mailing list R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora
