nuest/rockerverse-paper repository overview

⁠Rockerverse

Article about everything related to containers and R, originally based on this blog post⁠, then available as a preprint on arXiv⁠ and now published as an article in The R Journal:

The hex sticker uses the font Final Frontier Old Style⁠ and the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field⁠ combined with the Docker logo as background.

⁠Render the manuscript with Docker

Local build

docker build --tag rockerverse-paper --file .binder/Dockerfile .
docker run -i -v $(pwd):/rockerverse --user $UID rockerverse-paper Rscript -e 'setwd("/rockerverse"); rmarkdown::render("rockerverse.Rmd")'

Image from Docker Hub

docker run -i -v $(pwd):/rockerverse --user $UID nuest/rockerverse-paper Rscript -e 'setwd("/rockerverse"); rmarkdown::render("rockerverse.Rmd")'

⁠Not included projects and packages

• rize, because discontinued, see #35
• docker (https://bhaskarvk.github.io/docker⁠ has been removed from CRAN, seems unmaintained by authors
• https://github.com/svlentink/dockerfiles/blob/master/svlentink/r-base-alpine/Dockerfile⁠ because the Alpine image is quite a trivial one
• https://github.com/jlisic/R-docker-centos⁠ because CentOS images are also provided by R-hub
• sevenbridges includes several Dockerfiles and documentation about using images, and also seems to use Docker in the built workflows but via other tools, not directly, https://sbg.github.io/sevenbridges-r/⁠, https://github.com/sbg/sevenbridges-r/search?p=4&q=docker&unscoped_q=docker⁠
• https://github.com/rocker-jp⁠ because it seems to have stalled soon after inception
• https://github.com/thomasp85/fiery⁠ because no examples/docs for Docker (though probably trivial anyway)
• RStudio Connect⁠ because while it does use a similar mechanism to seperate processes, it does not use Docker and the comparison would require a lot of background explanation, and not all details are available because the software is proprietary
• https://github.com/ecohealthalliance/reservoir⁠ is an invididual specific data science image container for a group - add if it fits
• https://itsalocke.com/blog/building-an-r-training-environment/⁠ (one single container for many users in teaching, uses rocker/tidyverse)

⁠Helpers

The README.Rmd⁠ file’s source includes some useful little code snippets, e.g. count words or get a list of all contributor’s GitHub handles.