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+FROM rocker/r-ver:3.6.1
+
+# Install Ubuntu packages
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+    sudo \
+    gdebi-core \
+    pandoc \
+    pandoc-citeproc \
+    libcairo2-dev \
+    libjpeg-dev \
+    libxt-dev \
+    libssl-dev \
+    libcurl4-gnutls-dev \
+    libxml2-dev \
+    libssl-dev
+
+#install necessary libraries
+RUN R -e "install.packages('devtools')"
+RUN R -e "devtools::install_github('LUMC/dgeAnalysis')"
+
+EXPOSE 1402
+
+CMD R -e "library(dgeAnalysis); dgeAnalysis::startApp()"