eddelbuettel/rocker-pl repository overview

⁠rocker-pl

This is a Docker image intended to be paired with PrairieLearn to externally grade R-based problems for use in the STAT 430 course Data Science Programming Methods⁠ at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champiagn (UIUC). In the previous course iteration, a CentOS7-based container was used via Python. We now drive R directly from PrairieLearn evaluating code in this container. However, the container is however perfectly generic and can be used for general R work as well.

It is based on the Rocker⁠ container r-ubuntu in order to take advantage of the prebuilt Ubuntu binaries.

⁠R Packages Installed

See the Dockerfile for full details but we include

• tidyverse and data.table for data manipulation;
• RUnit, testthat and tinytest for testing;
• microbenchmark, rbenchmark and bench for timing;
• shiny, flexdashboard, dygraphs for shiny;

and more. We also include a few command-line applications such as git and sqlite3.

⁠Authors

Alton Barbehenn and Dirk Eddelbuettel

⁠License

GPL (>= 2)