torch fails to start on Alpine Linux

[bastistician]

Installing the R package from CRAN succeeds (currently version 0.14.2), but the package is unusable because install_torch() seems to download glibc-specific binaries. This can be reproduced using Alpine's Docker image, i.e., in docker run --rm -it alpine:

export TZ=UTC
apk add R R-dev R-doc g++ linux-headers
R -s -e 'install.packages("torch", repos = "https://cloud.R-project.org")'  # succeeds
R -s -e 'torch::install_torch()'  # succeeds downloading "libtorch-cxx11-abi-shared-with-deps-2.5.1%2Bcpu.zip" and "lantern-0.14.2+cpu+x86_64-Linux.zip"
R -s -e 'torch::torch_is_installed()'  # TRUE, but liblantern.so cannot be loaded, see below

Warning message:
ℹ torch failed to start, restart your R session to try again.
ℹ You might need to reinstall torch using `install_torch()`
✖ /usr/lib/R/library/torch/lib/liblantern.so - Error loading shared library ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: No such file or directory
  (needed by /usr/lib/R/library/torch/lib/liblantern.so)
Caused by error in `cpp_lantern_init()`:
! /usr/lib/R/library/torch/lib/liblantern.so - Error loading shared library ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: No such file or directory (needed by /usr/lib/R/library/torch/lib/liblantern.so) 

Furthermore, ldd /usr/lib/R/library/torch/lib/liblantern.so shows several glibc-specific symbols:

Error relocating /usr/lib/R/library/torch/lib/libc10.so: backtrace: symbol not found
Error relocating /usr/lib/R/library/torch/lib/libtorch_cpu.so: fcntl64: symbol not found
Error relocating /usr/lib/R/library/torch/lib/libtorch_cpu.so: gnu_get_libc_version: symbol not found
Error relocating /usr/lib/R/library/torch/lib/libgomp-98b21ff3.so.1: pthread_attr_setaffinity_np: symbol not found