Rocker Pre-built Dev Container Images

1 Quick reference

2 Overview

The Rocker Project provides some Docker container images which built with Dev Container Features. Packages commonly used for development are already installed.

These images are intended to be images for R that can be used like the Dev Container images built from devcontainers/images for each language.

ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer/r-ver, ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer/tidyverse, and ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer/geospatial are correspond to rocker/r-ver, rocker/tidyverse, and rocker/geospatial, respectively.

3 How to use

3.1 devcontainer.json and Dockerfile

Specify the image in devcontainer.json as follows.

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
{
    "image": "ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer/r-ver:4"
}

The basic usage is to customize by adding Dev Container Features here.

Or, we can use it as a base image in a Dockerfile.

.devcontainer/Dockerfile
FROM ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer/tidyverse:4

To install the R package on the Dockerfile, please refer to the Extending images page.

When using a combination of a devcontainer.json and a Dockerfile, the devcontainer.json file must be rewritten to refer to the Dockerfile.

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
{
    "build": {
        "dockerfile": "Dockerfile"
    }
}

3.2 Command line

We can use radian instead of the default R console.

Terminal
docker run --rm -ti ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer/r-ver:4 radian

Also httpgd is already installed so we can expose the container port to show the plot in the browser. See the GUI page for details.

3.3 RStudio Server

ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer/tidyverse and ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer/geospatial have already installed RStudio Server. See the rocker/rstudio reference page for usage.

4 See also