chockemeyer/rservers repository overview

I changed this docker image recently for technical reasons; the current versions (since 3.5.1-v2) contain only few R packages anymore.

The Dockerfile can be downloaded at https://tquant.eu/documents/Dockerfile.txt⁠. The timezone is set to Europe/Vienna, i.e. UTC+1 (UTC+2 in Daylight Saving Time).

My recommendations for using this image:

• Install and start the image as a base container
• Run apt update && apt upgrade within the container
• Install packages within that container
• Adapt general settings to your needs, e.g. shiny-server and rstudio-server configuration and passwords
• Commit the result to a new (local) image which you then run as the real container.

I use a shell script start-servers starting RStudio Server and Shiny Server:

#!/bin/bash

/usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/rserver --auth-minimum-user-id=0
/usr/bin/shiny-server

⁠Versions

• latest: Ubuntu 18.04 & R 3.5.1
• 3.5.1v2: Ubuntu 18.04 & R 3.5.1 (identical to latest) The subsequent versions contain a lot of R packages that I need in my project.
• 3.5.1: Ubuntu 18.04 & R 3.5.1
• 3.4.2 - 3.4.4: Ubuntu 16.04 & respective R version