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mdsrocker-install-whiteboxtools

Christoph Stepper 2022-05-04

Installation of WhiteboxTools Binary

We want to have WhiteboxTools installed during the Github Actions Workflow.

Problem

Originally we used "whitebox::install_whitebox() within the install_spatial.sh file. As mentioned in this whiteboxR issue, it happens from time to time, that the download of the WhiteboxTools zip file from https://www.whiteboxgeo.com fails.

Current Solution

We integrated the WhiteboxTools zip file into our mdsrocker repository ("inst/extdata/WhiteboxTools_linux_amd64.zip") manually.

During the Github Actions Workflow run, we simply use this and extract it to the defined path.

Docker images

Let’s have a look at the most recently built docker images.

First download the docker images from dockerhub.

tags=("4.1.2" "4.1.3" "4.2.0")

# pull docker images
for t in "${tags[@]}"
do
    img="meterds/r-aws-spatial:$t"
    # echo $img
    docker pull $img -q
done

# list of docker images
docker image ls

## docker.io/meterds/r-aws-spatial:4.1.2
## docker.io/meterds/r-aws-spatial:4.1.3
## docker.io/meterds/r-aws-spatial:4.2.0
## REPOSITORY              TAG       IMAGE ID       CREATED       SIZE
## meterds/r-aws-spatial   4.1.3     a0155fe1ad55   2 hours ago   2.15GB
## meterds/r-aws-spatial   4.2.0     598ae230cf1a   2 hours ago   2.15GB
## meterds/r-aws-spatial   4.1.2     200c1238a01c   2 hours ago   2.14GB

And then check if the whitebox binary can be found.

tags=("4.1.2" "4.1.3" "4.2.0")

# walk through images and check whether whiteboxtools is installed
for t in "${tags[@]}"
do
    img="meterds/r-aws-spatial:$t"
    echo $img
    docker run --rm $img Rscript -e "whitebox::check_whitebox_binary()"
done

## meterds/r-aws-spatial:4.1.2
## [1] TRUE
## meterds/r-aws-spatial:4.1.3
## [1] TRUE
## meterds/r-aws-spatial:4.2.0
## [1] TRUE

meterds/mdsrocker documentation built on Dec. 2, 2023, 11:56 p.m.