vladpopovici/rserver repository overview

This Docker container is a slightly modified version of rocker/rstudio⁠. The main difference is that R (and all its packages) are linked against libatlas instead of libopenblas. The reason is an obscure error that is sometimes triggered when fitting PLM (AffyPLM) models for microarray quality control and when attempting (background) normalization (RMA). The error reads something like:

Error in rma.background.correct(object, copy = copy): ERROR; return code from pthread_create() is 22

To run the container, use an adapted version of

docker run --rm -e PASSWORD=<YOU PASSWORD HERE> -p 8787:8787  -v ${HOME}:/home/rstudio vladpopovici/rserver:4.1.2

and then point your browser to 127.0.0.1:8787⁠.