The R Journal: article published in 2017, volume 9:2

An Introduction to Rocker: Docker Containers for R

Carl Boettiger and Dirk Eddelbuettel , The R Journal (2017) 9:2, pages 527-536.

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.

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

Received: 2017-10-12; online 2017-11-27CRAN packages: packrat CRAN Task Views implied by cited CRAN packages: ReproducibleResearch This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license