Is it possible to build a binder with RStudio-latest?

[mwouts]

Hi,

Following the addition of the quarto format to Jupytext at mwouts/jupytext#837, I'd like to add RStudio latest (& quarto) to my project's binder.

Is there an easy way to do so?

Thanks!

[choldgraf]

hmmm - I don't think so. This is where the RStudio version is defined:

https://github.com/jupyterhub/repo2docker/blob/5b5b759a4e3c74b372006f0c7492addc12f1bfee/repo2docker/buildpacks/_r_base.py#L8

I think the repo2docker project is the best place to ask about whether that can be extended.

[mwouts]

Interesting! Thank you @choldgraf 👋

Also I see the https://github.com/binder-examples/apt_install/ repo, but it does not seem that I can use it to 1. download a .deb file from https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/preview/ and then 2. install it, right?

[choldgraf]

I believe that it right though it has been a while since I've looked at that, I'd ask around in the repo2docker project

[cboettig]

I believe this was fixed by rocker-org/rocker-versioned2#309

[mwouts]

Great! Thank you for letting us know. Do I need to do anything special? I just gave a try at https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/mwouts/jupytext/main and I still don't get quarto: