docker for RRO?

[Enzo]

Is there an official docker distribution for RRO?

In case you are just thinking about it, I would recommend to join with the rocker.org project, aiming to build up-to-date R versions on debian.  The advantage of that would be that once you make available a RRO-base version all the other versions maintained by rocker.org would build up from it.

[Chris Mosetick]

Hi Enzo,

I saw your comment in Github as well. I'll respond here for now. RRO targets Ubuntu, not Debian. I am a huge Debian fan, but we have chosen Ubuntu for RRO because of the predictable release schedule.

We have RRO running on a Ubuntu 14.04 container. The Dockerfile that the automated builds use is based upon the rocker Debian unstable Dockerfiles. (I make sure to mention that in the code comments.)

You can find the RRO on Ubuntu container info here:

https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/revolutionanalytics/rro-ubuntu/

to get started using it:

docker pull revolutionanalytics/rro-ubuntu

Create a directory on your local system inside your home directory, Rdata for example, then use that as a place to analyze your data with the containerized RRO like so:

docker run -v $HOME/Rdata:/data -it revolutionanalytics/rro-ubuntu R

Where /data is the location inside the container to point your analysis to.

More formal usage notes will follow in the future, but this should get you started. Please feel free to provide feedback here if you have any comments, questions or issues.

As for the layering that you mentioned, we might do something similar in the future.

Chris Mosetick

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[Enzo]

Hi Chris

Many thanks for the clarifications.  Are you planning to deliver a version of docker on ubuntu with RStudio server? What about the so-called hadleyverse etc.?

Either you make your dockers' offering more complete and attractive, or you offer plug-and-play compatibility with the other "rockers" dockers (that build upon the R base). If you are not planning to do either, it seems to me you are missing the point of a RRO docker offer altogether...

Thanks Enzo

[Andrie de Vries]

Hi, Enzo

You make good points, thank you.

I'll take up the conversation with Chris and the rest of the team.

Regards

Andrie

[Daniel Nüst]

Hi list,

this thread is a little old, but I just wanted to mention here for people interested in MRO and Docker that I wanted to give MRO a spin without installing on my real system, so I created a Dockerfile. It's not up on Docker Hub yet, so just follow the instructions here:

https://github.com/nuest/docker-mro

Feedback welcome!

/Daniel

[Daniel Nüst]

Quick update: image was successfully pushed to Docker Hub - Feedback welcome!