rcheckserver

• Debian:
• Ubuntu:

Docker images with a complete Debian CRAN check server

The CRAN team maintains a debian meta package which depends on all packages that are installed on the CRAN Debian check server. This provides a reproducible 'R CMD check' environment for CRAN packages.

How to use

The CRAN team always uses the Debian testing distribution, which is also what our Debian image uses. This is a rolling branch, which means system libraries get continously updated, and may get breaking changes.

# Get the latest image
docker pull cran/debian

# Start interactive bash shell
docker run --rm -it cran/debian bash

To quickly test if a package can be built:

docker run --rm -it cran/debian R -e 'install.packages("pdftools")'

Alternatively, our ubuntu based image provides a similar environment based on the latest Ubuntu (LTS) server, but with the latest R installed from CRAN. This image is smaller and more stable, with slightly older system libraries than Debian, and only non-breaking updates.

docker run --rm -it cran/ubuntu R -e 'install.packages("magick")'

Source code

The files in the source directory keep track of upstream changes in rcheckserver:

• control: the debian control file which formally specifies the dependencies.
• changelog: keeps track of what has changed and when
• copyright: information from the authors of rcheckserver

We try to automatically update these source files using the source.yml action.