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lack of olson database on r-ver ubuntu #222

Closed greg-botwin closed 4 years ago

greg-botwin commented 4 years ago

I have been using the R-ver Ubuntu image for analysis and have found incompatibility with readr due to the lack of an Olson database. I was surprised that the preceding stack r-ver:4.0.0 worked fine.

Would you consider adding an Olson database to this stack?

Olson Database found on R-ver

docker run --rm -ti rocker/r-ver:latest Rscript -e 'OlsonNames()'
  #[1] "Africa/Abidjan"                   "Africa/Accra"                    
  #[3] "Africa/Addis_Ababa"               "Africa/Algiers" 
  #...

Olson Database found on r-ver:4.0.0

docker run --rm -ti rocker/r-ver:4.0.0 Rscript -e 'OlsonNames()'
  #[1] "Africa/Abidjan"                   "Africa/Accra"                    
  #[3] "Africa/Addis_Ababa"               "Africa/Algiers" 
  #...

Olson Database NOT found on r-ver:4.0.0-ubuntu18.04

docker run --rm -ti rocker/r-ver:4.0.0-ubuntu18.04 Rscript -e 'OlsonNames()'
 #character(0)
 #Warning message:
 #In OlsonNames() : no Olson database found

I appreciate your help and your efforts in creating this amazing resource. Thanks

eddelbuettel commented 4 years ago

That's likely package tzdata.

cboettig commented 4 years ago

@greg-botwin Thanks. Please note that rocker/r-ver:latest == rocker/r-ver:4.0.0 == rocker/r-ver:4.0.0-ubuntu20.04, i.e. it is running the current Ubuntu LTS release already.

Yeah, I know we need better docs on this, we're still working on that part of the transition!

We will likely phase out the ubuntu-18.04 tags for 4.0.0 -- these were to support some legacy issues that don't look to be necessary. rocker-versioned has always tracked debian-stable previously, so we are hoping to simply track the current ubuntu LTS now that we have Ubuntu based images. again apologies we haven't been great at communicating these changes yet!