An Introduction to Rocker: Docker Containers for R

We describe the Rocker project, which provides a widely-used suite of Docker images with customized R environments for particular tasks. We discuss how this suite is organized, and how these tools can increase portability, scaling, reproducibility, and convenience of R users and developers.

Carl Boettiger , Dirk Eddelbuettel
2017-11-27

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Boettiger & Eddelbuettel, "An Introduction to Rocker: Docker Containers for R", The R Journal, 2017

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@article{RJ-2017-065,
  author = {Boettiger, Carl and Eddelbuettel, Dirk},
  title = {An Introduction to Rocker: Docker Containers for R},
  journal = {The R Journal},
  year = {2017},
  note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2017-065},
  doi = {10.32614/RJ-2017-065},
  volume = {9},
  issue = {2},
  issn = {2073-4859},
  pages = {527-536}
}