Identify which known versions sets of TF, TFP, and Python work for greta

[njtierney]

For example, currently:

• tensorflow: 2.15
• tensorflow-probability: 0.23.0
• keras: 2.15.0
  • Python: 3.11

[njtierney]

Note that these should prioritise tensorflow probability

[njtierney]

Notes from Golding

# very specific installation instructions, that work on AWS. It may well be possible to relax these.
install.packages("remotes")
# most likely tf2 branch?
remotes::install_github("greta-dev/greta@2a3e073")
reticulate::conda_create(envname = "greta-env-tf2",
                         python_version = "3.8.15")
reticulate::py_install(packages = "tensorflow==2.11.0", 
                       pip = TRUE,
                       envname = "greta-env-tf2",
                       method = "conda")

reticulate::py_install(packages = "tensorflow-probability==0.19.0", 
                       pip = TRUE,
                       envname = "greta-env-tf2",
                       method = "conda")

# RESTART!

# load greta
library(greta)

# check things are installed
greta_sitrep()
x <- normal(0, 1)
calculate(x, nsim = 1)

[njtierney]

Some information is at: https://www.tensorflow.org/install/source

Create a set of known TF/TFP/keras/numpy versions that work with each other for each OS

• first, check if they all work with each other technically (as stated on TF/P GH releases)
• then work out if I can get them installed on windows/mac/linux using GH actions
• Get that to run once a week, and as a result of running, produce a data output somewhere that we can look up?

[njtierney]

From https://github.com/tensorflow/probability/releases

• This is the 0.24.0 release of TensorFlow Probability. It is tested and stable against TensorFlow 2.16.1 and JAX 0.4.25 (cannot use as TF 2.15 uses keras 3 which has breaking changes) (Mar 13, 2024)
• This is the 0.23.0 release of TensorFlow Probability. It is tested and stable against TensorFlow 2.15.0 and JAX 0.4.20 . (Nov 21, 2023)
• This is the 0.22.1 release of TensorFlow Probability. It is tested and stable against TensorFlow 2.14.0 and JAX 0.4.16 and 0.4.19 . (Oct 24, 2023)
• This is the 0.22 release of TensorFlow Probability. It is tested and stable against TensorFlow 2.14.0 and JAX 0.4.16 . (Oct 3, 2023)
• This is the 0.21.0 release of TensorFlow Probability. It is tested and stable against TensorFlow version 2.13 and JAX 0.4.14 (Aug 5 2023)
• This is the 0.20 release of TensorFlow Probability. It is tested and stable against TensorFlow version 2.12 and JAX 0.4.8 . (May 9 2023)
• This is the 0.19.0 release of TensorFlow Probability. It is tested and stable against TensorFlow version 2.11 and JAX 0.3.25 . (Dec 3 2022)
• This is the 0.18.0 release of TensorFlow Probability. It is tested and stable against TensorFlow version 2.10 and JAX 0.3.17 (Sept 13 2022)
• This is the 0.17.0 release of TensorFlow Probability. It is tested and stable against TensorFlow version 2.9.1 and JAX 0.3.13 (from june 8 2022)

[njtierney]

Add a checker as part of #664