arm support for tidyverse, verse, geospatial?

[jpvelez]

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rocker/tidyverse, rocker/verse, rocker/geospatial

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What operating system related to this question?

Linux

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Question

Hi folks,

Rocker is totally amazing; thank you so much for all your hard work! We're a climate think tank that mostly uses R but also occasionally python, and we all run apple-silicon macs.

Our current image looks like this:

FROM rocker/rstudio:4.3.3

# Adds tidyverse packages & devtools
RUN /rocker_scripts/install_tidyverse.sh

# Adds geospatial packages
# required by geojsonsf package
RUN R -e 'install.packages("jsonify")'
RUN /rocker_scripts/install_geospatial.sh

# Adds python and jupyter
RUN /rocker_scripts/install_python.sh
RUN /rocker_scripts/install_jupyter.sh
# Put python venv on PATH
RUN export PATH="/opt/venv/bin:$PATH"
# Install python3 kernel for quarto
RUN pip install ipykernel
RUN pip install --upgrade pip

# Adds quarto
RUN /rocker_scripts/install_quarto.sh latest

# Install light-weight tex distribution
RUN curl -sL "https://yihui.org/tinytex/install-bin-unix.sh" | sh

In other words, we use the rocker install scripts to essentially recreate rocker/geospatial with python installed. We do this because currently, rocker's arm support seems to stop at rocker/rstudio.

Is there any chance of supporting arm throughout the stack? With apple silicon macs becoming more common, I think a lot of folks would find this very useful!

[eitsupi]

Is there any chance of supporting arm throughout the stack?

The current problem is that some R packages such as arrow and duckdb take a long time to build. See #144.

Build times may be reduced when P3M starts providing arm64 binaries or when the arm64 runner is available on GitHub Actions (end of 2024).

[benz0li]

Is there any chance of supporting arm throughout the stack?

The current problem is that some R packages such as arrow and duckdb take a long time to build. See #144.

Build times may be reduced when P3M starts providing arm64 binaries or when the arm64 runner is available on GitHub Actions (end of 2024).

@jpvelez Until then, have a look at b-data's/my multi-arch (linux/amd64, linux/arm64/v8) JupyterLab R docker stack which includes RStudio for R versions ≥ 4.4.0.