Docker building Dockerfile to install R libraries

Reference

https://hub.docker.com/r/rocker/tidyverse/dockerfile

https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker/wiki/Using-the-RStudio-image


1. Create empty folder on host machine

2. Create Dockerfile with no extension.

3. Copy paste the following commands

FROM rocker/rstudio

COPY main/ /main/

RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get -y --no-install-recommends install \
  libxml2-dev \
  libcairo2-dev \
  libsqlite3-dev \
  libmariadbd-dev \
  libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev \
  libpq-dev \
  libssh2-1-dev \
  unixodbc-dev \
  libsasl2-dev

4. Make sure the folder main is in the empty folder. This should container the folder structure which you want

4. In the terminal run [Dont forget the "." at the end]

docker build -t image_name .

5. After image is set up, run the image. The ROOT=TRUE argument is optional

docker run -e PASSWORD=hamada -e ROOT=TRUE -p 8787:8787 image_name



6. open in browser 127.0.0.1:8787

7. log in to rstudio and install all the needed libraries from rstudio

install.packages("data.table")