An Introduction to Rocker: Docker Containers for R
Carl Boettiger, Dirk Eddelbuettel
TL;DR
The paper introduces Rocker, a Docker-based suite of R environments designed to enhance portability, scalability, and reproducibility for R users and developers.
Contribution
It presents the organization and benefits of Rocker Docker images tailored for R, facilitating easier deployment and reproducibility.
Findings
Rocker improves reproducibility of R environments.
Rocker enhances portability and scalability for R workflows.
The suite is widely adopted by the R community.
Abstract
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.
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