Notebooks and RStudio

This repo contains setup for three different docker based environments.

• Jupyter notebooks for python
• Jupyter notebooks for R
• R Studio

Jupyter notebooks in docker

Run jupyter notebooks in docker.

Notebooks are saved in the host file system.

Python notebooks

Installation

1. clone the repo
2. create a dir for notebooks. This needs to be under the docker host user's home dir (can be deep). e.g. ~/notebooks
3. Run NOTEBOOK_DIR=notebooks ./run.sh

• note that NOTEBOOK_DIR is specified as a relative path to home.

When the notebook is ready, open http://localhost:8888 and use the token seen in the docker run output for login.

dir mount note

Container mounts the host home dir at /hdir

R notebooks

NOTEBOOK_DIR=<full path to notebooks dir> <this repo>/R/run.sh 

R Studio in Docker

Run RStudio in docker with web browser as UI.

NOTEBOOK_DIR=<full path to notebooks dir> <this repo>/R/studio/run

The script builds the image (takes a long time to install all the libs - first time only), runs the container, opens Rstudio in web browser.

The notebook dir will appear as <HONE>/Documents in the RStduio

More libraries can be added by modifying R/studio.Dockerfile

Issues

Inconsistent ways (relative vs absolute) of specifying notebook dir path (will fix later).

Not yet publishing any of the images to any docker repository.

Dependencies

See the corresponding Dockerfile.