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FROM debian:jessie 

ARG R_VERSION
ARG BUILD_DATE
ENV BUILD_DATE ${BUILD_DATE:-}
ENV R_VERSION ${R_VERSION:-3.3.2}
ENV LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8
ENV LANG en_US.UTF-8
ENV TERM xterm

## dependencies
RUN apt-get update \ 
  && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    bash-completion \
    ca-certificates \
    file \
    fonts-texgyre \
    g++ \
    gfortran \
    gsfonts \
    libbz2-1.0 \
    libcurl3 \
    libicu52 \
    libjpeg62-turbo \
    libopenblas-dev \
    libpangocairo-1.0-0 \ 
    libpcre3 \
    libpng12-0 \
    libtiff5 \ 
    liblzma5 \
    locales \
    make \
    unzip \
    zip \
    zlib1g \
  && 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="curl \
    default-jdk \
    libbz2-dev \
    libcairo2-dev \ 
    libcurl4-openssl-dev \
    libpango1.0-dev \
    libjpeg-dev \
    libicu-dev \
    libpcre3-dev \
    libpng-dev \
    libreadline-dev \
    libtiff5-dev \
    liblzma-dev \ 
    perl \
    texinfo \
    texlive-extra-utils \
    texlive-fonts-recommended \
    texlive-fonts-extra \
    texlive-latex-recommended \
    zlib1g-dev" \
  && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends $BUILDDEPS \ 
  && cd tmp/ \
  ## Download source code 
  && curl -O https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-${R_VERSION}.tar.gz \
  ## Extract source code
  && tar -xf R-${R_VERSION}.tar.gz \
  && cd R-${R_VERSION} \
  ## Set compiler flags
  && 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="-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g" \
    CXXFLAGS="-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g" \
  ## Configure options
  ./configure --enable-R-shlib \
               --enable-memory-profiling \
               --with-readline \
               --with-blas="-lopenblas" \
               --disable-nls \
               --without-x \
               --without-recommended-packages \
  ## Build and install
  && make \
  && make install \
  ## Add a default CRAN mirror
  && echo 'options(repos = c(CRAN = "https://cran.rstudio.com/"), download.file.method = "libcurl")' >> /usr/local/lib/R/etc/Rprofile.site \
  ## Add a library directory (for user-installed packages)
  && mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/R/site-library \
  && chown root:staff /usr/local/lib/R/site-library \
  && chmod g+wx /usr/local/lib/R/site-library \
  ## Fix library path
  && echo "R_LIBS_USER='/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'" >> /usr/local/lib/R/etc/Renviron \
  && echo "R_LIBS=\${R_LIBS-'/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:/usr/local/lib/R/library:/usr/lib/R/library'}" >> /usr/local/lib/R/etc/Renviron \
  ## install packages from date-locked MRAN snapshot of CRAN
  && [ -z "$BUILD_DATE" ] && BUILD_DATE=$(date -I --date='TZ="America/Los_Angeles"') || true \
  && MRAN=https://mran.microsoft.com/snapshot/${BUILD_DATE} \
  && echo MRAN=$MRAN >> /etc/environment \
  && export MRAN=$MRAN \
    && echo "options(repos=c(CRAN='$MRAN'))" > /usr/local/lib/R/etc/Rprofile.site \ 
  ## Use littler installation scripts
  && Rscript -e "install.packages(c('littler', 'docopt'), repo = '$MRAN')" \
  && ln -s /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/littler/examples/install2.r /usr/local/bin/install2.r \
  && ln -s /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/littler/examples/installGithub.r /usr/local/bin/installGithub.r \
  && ln -s /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/littler/bin/r /usr/local/bin/r \
  ## Clean up from R source install
  && cd / \
  && rm -rf /tmp/* \
  && apt-get remove --purge -y $BUILDDEPS \
  && apt-get autoremove -y \
  && apt-get autoclean -y \
  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \

CMD ["R"]