Background:
I am trying to establish a setup where I can create a persistent build for a docker image, which will in turn power the core of an R Statistics process. At this point I've figured out how to install exactly the R Packages that I am requesting, however, I do wonder how relevant the software supplied by the underlying system (in my case Ubuntu 20.04) is in regard to reproducibility in R. I am installing via apt-get install but without version specification there.
Questions:
- What can happen, in regard to R Package functionality, when I rebuild the image later with all the same R packages specified but potentially different system libraries?
- How big can the influence be and what are the remedies?
Any guidance is appreciated.