Base docker build fails due to missing caTools R package

[mwalker174]

Command:

bash build_docker_bash.sh

Error:

...
Step 12/13 : RUN Rscript install_R_packages.R
 ---> Running in 96b5753b6c04
Installing packages into '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'
(as 'lib' is unspecified)
Error: (converted from warning) dependency 'caTools' is not available
Execution halted
The command '/bin/sh -c Rscript install_R_packages.R' returned a non-zero code: 1

I came up with this temporary workaround in install_R_packages.R:

repos <- c("http://cran.mtu.edu")
install.packages(c("bitops"), repos = repos, clean = TRUE)
InstallPackageFromArchive("caTools", "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/caTools/caTools_1.17.tar.gz")
dependencies = c("gplots",
                 "digest", "gtable", "MASS", "plyr", "reshape2", "scales", "tibble", "lazyeval", # for ggplot2
                 "tidyselect", "BH", "plogr")     # for dplyr
install.packages(dependencies, repos = repos, clean = TRUE)

which at least builds successfully.

[hsiaoyi0504]

+1 for meeting the same issue.