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Update R on the statboxes
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The current version of R on our number crunchers (stat100*) is

R version 3.3.3 (2017-03-06) -- "Another Canoe"

The CRAN version is R version 3.5.2 (Eggshell Igloo) and has been released on 2018-12-20.

Could we please have R upgraded on our statboxes?

Rationale: it's not that I really like to have the most recent version at my availability; I have already started giving up on some packages (examples: parallelDist, poweRlaw) because they are not available for R, say, < 3.4.0, anymore.

Please don't forget that we also need a new version of R installed across the workers in the WMF Analytics Cluster for people who would like to do SparkR or sparklyr.

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GoranSMilovanovic created this task.Jan 24 2019, 4:11 PM
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elukey subscribed.Oct 16 2019, 8:08 AM

The update of R follows the Debian OS upgrade process sadly, since it is a big burden for us to package a more up to date stack. Having said that, we are in the process of moving to Debian Buster :)

stat1005 is the first of the stat boxes with the new OS:

elukey@stat1005:~$ R

R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20) -- "Eggshell Igloo"

The Hadoop workers will follow during the next months (more info in T231067).

GoranSMilovanovic added a comment.Oct 16 2019, 10:48 AM

@elukey Great, thanks for the update!

mpopov merged a task: T220542: Update R from 3.3.3 to 3.6.0 on stat and notebook machines.Oct 16 2019, 4:02 PM
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Ottomata closed this task as Resolved.Oct 15 2020, 6:36 PM
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FYI, anaconda + conda envs are installed on all stat boxes. This should have a more up to date R, as well as allow you to install whatever R conda packages you like. :)

See: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Systems/Anaconda and https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Systems/Jupyter#Newpyter

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