diff --git a/X11/Dockerfile b/X11/Dockerfile
index e32dc70..d35df24 100644
--- a/X11/Dockerfile
+++ b/X11/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM rocker/r-ver:3.4.4
+FROM rocker/r-ver:3.5.0
 
 ## R's X11 runtime dependencies
 RUN apt-get update \
diff --git a/r-ver/Dockerfile b/r-ver/Dockerfile
index 0180ec1..2ba8baf 100644
--- a/r-ver/Dockerfile
+++ b/r-ver/Dockerfile
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ LABEL org.label-schema.license="GPL-2.0" \
 
 ARG R_VERSION
 ARG BUILD_DATE
-ENV BUILD_DATE ${BUILD_DATE:-2018-04-23}
-ENV R_VERSION=${R_VERSION:-3.4.4} \
+ENV BUILD_DATE ${BUILD_DATE:-2018-07-02}
+ENV R_VERSION=${R_VERSION:-3.5.0} \
     LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 \
     LANG=en_US.UTF-8 \
     TERM=xterm
diff --git a/rstudio/Dockerfile b/rstudio/Dockerfile
index b0068dc..0213d83 100644
--- a/rstudio/Dockerfile
+++ b/rstudio/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM rocker/r-ver:3.4.4
+FROM rocker/r-ver:3.5.0
 
 ARG RSTUDIO_VERSION
 ## Comment the next line to use the latest RStudio Server version by default
@@ -68,13 +68,13 @@ RUN apt-get update \
   && tar xzf /tmp/s6-overlay-amd64.tar.gz -C / \
   && mkdir -p /etc/services.d/rstudio \
   && echo '#!/usr/bin/with-contenv bash \
-          \n## load /etc/environment vars first: \
-  		  \n for line in $( cat /etc/environment ) ; do export $line ; done \
-          \n exec /usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/rserver --server-daemonize 0' \
-          > /etc/services.d/rstudio/run \
-  && echo '#!/bin/bash \
-          \n rstudio-server stop' \
-          > /etc/services.d/rstudio/finish
+           \n## load /etc/environment vars first: \
+           \n for line in $( cat /etc/environment ) ; do export $line ; done \
+           \n exec /usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/rserver --server-daemonize 0' \
+           > /etc/services.d/rstudio/run \
+   && echo '#!/bin/bash \
+           \n rstudio-server stop' \
+           > /etc/services.d/rstudio/finish
 
 COPY userconf.sh /etc/cont-init.d/userconf
 
@@ -88,9 +88,4 @@ EXPOSE 8787
 ## automatically link a shared volume for kitematic users
 VOLUME /home/rstudio/kitematic
 
-COPY user-settings /home/rstudio/.rstudio/monitored/user-settings/
-# No chown will cause "RStudio Initalization Error"
-# "Error occurred during the transmission"; RStudio will not load.
-RUN chown -R rstudio:rstudio /home/rstudio/.rstudio
-
 CMD ["/init"]
diff --git a/tidyverse/Dockerfile b/tidyverse/Dockerfile
index 183b33c..146699d 100644
--- a/tidyverse/Dockerfile
+++ b/tidyverse/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM rocker/rstudio:3.4.4
+FROM rocker/rstudio:3.5.0
 
 RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get -y --no-install-recommends install \
   libxml2-dev \
diff --git a/verse/Dockerfile b/verse/Dockerfile
index 1bf61b7..1d1ede9 100644
--- a/verse/Dockerfile
+++ b/verse/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM rocker/tidyverse:3.4.4
+FROM rocker/tidyverse:3.5.0
 ENV PATH=$PATH:/opt/TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-linux/
 
 ## Add LaTeX, rticles and bookdown support
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ RUN wget "https://travis-bin.yihui.name/texlive-local.deb" \
     ## for rJava
     default-jdk \
     ## Nice Google fonts
-    fonts-roboto \    
+    fonts-roboto \
     ## used by some base R plots
     ghostscript \
     ## used to build rJava and other packages
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ RUN wget "https://travis-bin.yihui.name/texlive-local.deb" \
     librdf0-dev \
     ## for V8-based javascript wrappers
     libv8-dev \
-    ## R CMD Check wants qpdf to check pdf sizes, or throws a Warning 
+    ## R CMD Check wants qpdf to check pdf sizes, or throws a Warning
     qpdf \
     ## For building PDF manuals
     texinfo \
-    ## for git via ssh key 
+    ## for git via ssh key
     ssh \
  ## just because
     less \
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ RUN wget "https://travis-bin.yihui.name/texlive-local.deb" \
   && tlmgr path add \
   && Rscript -e "tinytex::r_texmf()" \
   && chown -R root:staff /opt/TinyTeX \
+  && chown -R root:staff /usr/local/lib/R/site-library \
   && chmod -R g+w /opt/TinyTeX \
   && chmod -R g+wx /opt/TinyTeX/bin \
   && echo "PATH=${PATH}" >> /usr/local/lib/R/etc/Renviron \
@@ -57,6 +58,6 @@ RUN wget "https://travis-bin.yihui.name/texlive-local.deb" \
   && install2.r --error --deps TRUE \
     bookdown rticles rmdshower
 #
-## Consider including: 
+## Consider including:
 # - yihui/printr R package (when released to CRAN)
 # - libgsl0-dev (GSL math library dependencies)