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An Introduction to Rocker: Docker Containers for R

Software Engineering 2017-10-11 v1
Authors: Carl Boettiger , Dirk Eddelbuettel
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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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@article{arxiv.1710.03675,
  title  = {An Introduction to Rocker: Docker Containers for R},
  author = {Carl Boettiger and Dirk Eddelbuettel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.03675},
  year   = {2017}
}

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