devcontainer-r

Setup a reproducible environment for R development and a way to distribute R applications using Docker

Dev setup (using VSCode)

1. Start a new terminal inside the devcontainer and run R

2. If you clone a project that already has renv.lock as a file, you only need to run renv::restore()

3. If your project does not have a renv.lock, you should initialize the project using Renv:

   install.packages("renv")
   renv::init()

4. Install required libraries (e.g., glue):

   install.packages("glue")
   renv::snapshot()  

Distribution Setup

1. Create an image: docker build -t myapplication:0.0.1 .
2. Run the application: docker run myapplication:0.0.1