[rocker/shiny](https://github.com/rocker-org/shiny) are also build on this
stack, following the same versioning rules as described here.
This repository provides alternate stack to `r-base`, `rocker/rstudio`, `rocker/hadleyverse` series, with an emphasis on reproducibility. Compared to those images, this stack:
This repository provides alternate stack to `r-base`, with an emphasis on reproducibility. Compared to those images, this stack:
- builds on debian stable (`debian:jessie` for versions < 3.4.0, `debian:stretch`thereafter) release instead of `debian:testing`, so no more apt-get breaking when `debian:testing` repos are updated and you had to muck with `-t unstable` to get apt-get to work.
- builds on debian stable (`debian:jessie` for versions < 3.4.0, `debian:stretch` after, etc) release instead of `debian:testing`, so no more apt-get breaking when `debian:testing` repos are updated and you had to muck with `-t unstable` to get apt-get to work.
- Further, this stack installs a fixed version of R itself from source, rather than whatever is already packaged for Debian (the r-base stack gets the latest R version as a binary from debian:unstable),
- and it installs all R packages from a fixed snapshot of CRAN at a given date (MRAN repos).
- provides images that are generally smaller than the r-base series
