# Renku Base image with older R version

**URL:** <https://renku.discourse.group/t/renku-base-image-with-older-r-version/646>\
**Category:** RenkuLab\
**Created:** [21 June 2022 07:42 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/renku-base-image-with-older-r-version/646 "2022-06-21T07:42:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Damien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@Damien](https://renku.discourse.group/u/Damien)\
**Post date:** [21 June 2022 07:42 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/renku-base-image-with-older-r-version/646/1 "2022-06-21T07:42:08Z")

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Hello,

We are currently developping an application for a production environment that uses R 3.4.3. We would like to use a Renku base image with the same R version and the latest Rstudio version (we like looking at code on multiple panes in parallel ;-)).

Unfortunately, there is no Renku base image with that specific version.

What would you suggest? Is there a quick way to downgrade R from the latest Renku image?

Thanks a lot!

– Damien

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**Author:** ![gavin-k-lee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/renku.discourse.group/gavin-k-lee/32/233_2.png) [@gavin-k-lee](https://renku.discourse.group/u/gavin-k-lee)\
**Post date:** [21 June 2022 07:50 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/renku-base-image-with-older-r-version/646/2 "2022-06-21T07:50:20Z")

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Hi Damien,

Thanks for your question! We are curious as to whether you have R 3.4.3 + RStudio 2022.02.3-492 installed on that production environment? I recall that we had trouble installing that older version of R + a recent version of RStudio. It is also not trivial to downgrade the R version.

Gavin

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**Author:** ![Damien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@Damien](https://renku.discourse.group/u/Damien)\
**Post date:** [21 June 2022 10:03 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/renku-base-image-with-older-r-version/646/3 "2022-06-21T10:03:40Z")

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Hi Gavin,

Thanks for the quick reply.

No the production environment has a much older version of RStudio (1.2.5042).

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**Author:** ![gavin-k-lee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/renku.discourse.group/gavin-k-lee/32/233_2.png) [@gavin-k-lee](https://renku.discourse.group/u/gavin-k-lee)\
**Post date:** [21 June 2022 10:57 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/renku-base-image-with-older-r-version/646/4 "2022-06-21T10:57:26Z")

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Hi Damien,

I just tried to fix an image with R 3.4.3 + RStudio 2022.02.3-492 but I don’t think they are compatible: see [Test R 3.4.3 · SwissDataScienceCenter/renkulab-docker@a95cc74 · GitHub](https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renkulab-docker/runs/6982781336?check_suite_focus=true). Now that I think about it, we had an issue with rstudio-proxy with the older versions of R so I don’t think it would work in our set up. I think the best thing to do would be to see if you can upgrade the production environment to R 4.0+ (which is of course a major version increase).

Sorry about that!  
Gavin

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**Author:** ![Damien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@Damien](https://renku.discourse.group/u/Damien)\
**Post date:** [21 June 2022 12:35 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/renku-base-image-with-older-r-version/646/5 "2022-06-21T12:35:06Z")

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Hi Gavin,

No worries, thanks a lot for trying out! We will indeed try to push for an update on the production side…

Best,  
– Damien