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Overview of provided images

Images are built based on the latest Debian distribution with completely updated packages for security and performance. We will generally use the rolling Debian testing release. Images providing additional packages will often install packages directly from CRAN sources, rather than relying on prepackaged binaries. This means that most images should always contain the latest versions of the packages that are available on CRAN. Certain use-cases may provide packages not (yet) available on CRAN.

Base Docker Containers

image	description	size	metrics	build status
r-base	Current R via apt-get with debian:testing & unstable repos
r-devel	R-devel added side-by-side onto r-base (using alias RD)
drd	lighter r-devel, built not quite daily
r-ver	Specify R version in docker tag. Builds on debian:stable

Use cases

The rocker project also hosts Docker images illustrating particular use cases. More information about these can be found in their respective respositories on rocker-org

Unversioned images (builds on r-base)

image	description	size	metrics	build status
r-devel-san	as r-devel, but built with compiler sanatizers
r-devel-ubsan-clan	Sanatizers, clang c compiler (instead of gcc)
rstudio:testing	rstudio on debian:testing
shiny	shiny-server on r-base
r-apt	(R plus CRAN + marutter repo information)

Versioned stack (builds on r-ver)

These images build on rocker/r-ver. Each of these include tags to specify the desired version of R, from 3.1.0- 3.4.0, :latest and :devel. See rocker-versioned repo for details.

image	description	size	metrics	build status
rstudio	Adds rstudio
tidyverse	Adds tidyverse & devtools
verse	Adds tex & publishing-related packages
geospatial	Adds geospatial libraries

Anyone interested in proposing or collaborating on additional use cases should read our guide to contributing and get in touch

Installing binaries

Certain additional packages cannot be installed using install.packages due to existing dependencies. We recommend using the pre-packages distribution binaries in this case.

• The Debian-based hadleyverse also provides the debian-r.debian.net repository for installing R binaries. This includes more and more recent binaries for CRAN packages than are available in standard Debian repositories, but is not completely comprehensive.

Community Images

These images are maintained outside of rocker-org:

• r-java (GitHub, DockerHub) Extends r-base by Java 8 and rJava.
• r-pandoc (GitHub, DockerHub) Extends r-base by pandoc 1.3.1 from the RStudio-compiled binaries and the knitr and pander R packages.
• r-ssh (GitHub, DockerHub) Extends r-base by an SSH client and the ability to mount SSH keys from the host with the right permissions.

Best practices in Dockerfile construction

• We largely conform to Docker's recommendations in writing Dockerfiles, which is a good place to start.
• Details TBD