This is difficult, because it probably should not fail on various CRAN servers that test pak w/o suggested packages.
OTOH, install.packages() never actually fails, so you can't use install.packages() in a Dockerfile and assume that the package is installed if it is successful:
root@0030e21bddf6:/opt# Rscript -e 'install.packages("zxzxzxzx")'
Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning message:
package ‘zxzxzxzx’ is not available for this version of R
A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere,
see the ideas at
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages
root@0030e21bddf6:/opt# echo $?
0
This is difficult, because it probably should not fail on various CRAN servers that test pak w/o suggested packages.
OTOH,
install.packages()never actually fails, so you can't useinstall.packages()in a Dockerfile and assume that the package is installed if it is successful:Cf. https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr/issues/6794