shabbychef/rminimal repository overview

In a Pyrrhic victory, I have trimmed much of the 'extras' from a Debian system with R installed. Practically this means the user has to add all that stuff back to do anything useful. But there you go: R, pegged at a given version with a smallish footprint. Dockerfiles and project on github at https://github.com/shabbychef/docker-R⁠