Unable to install r package inside docker container

Asked May 26 '20 at 14:13

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I'm trying to install the docker package using binaries inside a docker container. inspired by this post:How to speed up R packages installation in docker

Now all the cran package to be installed is stored in file requirements-bin.txt

Error:

E: Unable to locate package r-cran-plumber
E: Unable to locate package r-cran-tolerance

Docker File:

FROM rocker/r-apt:bionic
WORKDIR /app
RUN apt-get update && \
  apt-get install -y libxml2-dev

# Install binaries (see https://datawookie.netlify.com/blog/2019/01/docker-images-for-r-r-base-versus-r-apt/)
COPY ./requirements-bin.txt .
RUN cat requirements-bin.txt | xargs apt-get install -y -qq


# Clean up package registry
RUN rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

COPY ./src /app

EXPOSE 5000
CMD ["Rscript", "Server.R"]

requirements-bin.txt

r-cran-plumber
r-cran-tolerance

edited May 26 '20 at 14:46

asked May 26 '20 at 14:13

min2bro

could you please share the requirements-bin.txt file? – hariK May 26 '20 at 14:38
@hariK Added requirements-bin.txt in the Question – min2bro May 26 '20 at 14:46
I couldn't reproduce the issue. At which stage it fails and where are you building this image? – hariK May 26 '20 at 15:20
@hariK it is failing at Step 5/11 : RUN cat requirements-bin.txt | xargs apt-get install -y -qq and I'm building this image on docker for windows – min2bro May 26 '20 at 15:25
Works here too. Are you sure you don't have weird things like `\r\n` as new lines in your _requirements-bin.txt_ file since you are in Windows? – β.εηοιτ.βε May 26 '20 at 17:32

Unable to install r package inside docker container

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