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FROM debian:jessie 

ARG R_VERSION
ENV R_VERSION ${R_VERSION:-3-3-0}
ENV LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8
ENV LANG en_US.UTF-8

## dependencies
RUN apt-get update \ 
	&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
  ## for https connections
    ca-certificates \
  ## keep for installing packages with compiled code, compression libs, linear algebra libs, graphics libs
    g++ \
		gfortran \
    make \
    libgfortran3 \ 
    libglib2.0-0 \
    libc6 \
    libreadline6 \ 
    ucf \
 ## linear algebra
    libblas3 \ 
    liblapack3 \
    libquadmath0 \
  ## Perl Regex
    libpcre3 \
    libpaper-utils \ 
  ## Compression 
    libbz2-1.0 \ 
    liblzma5 \
    unzip \
    zlib1g \
    zip \
  ## Graphics
    libcairo2 \ 
    libjpeg62-turbo \
    libpango-1.0-0 \ 
    libpangocairo-1.0-0 \ 
    libpng12-0 \
    libtiff5 \ 
  ## networking
 		libcurl4-openssl-dev \
  ## for UTF-8 locale
	  locales \
  ## Preferred graphics fonts
 		fonts-texgyre \
		wget \
	&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
  && echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen \
	&& locale-gen en_US.utf8 \
	&& /usr/sbin/update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 \
  && BUILDDEPS="bash-completion \
		bison \
		debhelper \
		ca-certificates \
		default-jdk \
    file \
		groff-base \
    libpcre3-dev \
		libblas-dev \
		libbz2-dev \
		libcairo2-dev \
		liblapack-dev \
		liblzma-dev \
		libjpeg-dev \
		libpng-dev \
		libreadline-dev \
		libtiff5-dev \
		libncurses5-dev \
		libpango1.0-dev \
		libx11-dev \
		libxt-dev \
		mpack \
		subversion \
		tcl8.6-dev \
		texinfo \
    texlive-extra-utils \
    texlive-fonts-extra \
    texlive-fonts-recommended \
		texlive-latex-recommended \
		tk8.6-dev \
		x11proto-core-dev \
		xauth \
		xdg-utils \
		xfonts-base \
		xvfb \
		zlib1g-dev" \
  && apt-get update -qq \
	&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends $BUILDDEPS \
  && cd /tmp \
  && svn co https://svn.r-project.org/R/tags/R-${R_VERSION}/ R-devel \ 
  && cd /tmp/R-devel \
	&& R_PAPERSIZE=letter \
		R_BATCHSAVE="--no-save --no-restore" \
		R_BROWSER=xdg-open \
		PAGER=/usr/bin/pager \
		PERL=/usr/bin/perl \
		R_UNZIPCMD=/usr/bin/unzip \
		R_ZIPCMD=/usr/bin/zip \
		R_PRINTCMD=/usr/bin/lpr \
		LIBnn=lib \
		AWK=/usr/bin/awk \
		CFLAGS=$(R CMD config CFLAGS) \
		CXXFLAGS=$(R CMD config CXXFLAGS) \
	./configure --enable-R-shlib \
               --without-blas \
               --without-lapack \
               --with-readline \
               --disable-nls \
               --without-x \
               --without-recommended-packages \
	&& make \
	&& make install \
  && echo 'options(repos = c(CRAN = "https://cran.rstudio.com/"), download.file.method = "libcurl")' >> /usr/local/lib/R/etc/Rprofile.site \
	&& rm -rf /tmp/R-devel \
  && apt-get remove --purge -y $BUILDDEPS \
  && apt-get autoremove -y \
  && apt-get autoclean -y \
 	&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

CMD ["R"]