Use this convenient wrapper to maintain and to share a versioned infrastructure for your RStudio projects. No more ... but it works on my machine. drocker is a docker-compose wrapper on top of rocker/ropensci This is a starting point for a new R project. The instructions below have been tested on Ubuntu 16.04. Adapt them as required for your own OS. /docs/collectl.Rmd shows how to share large data files using Google Sheets, free storage.

Download and install Docker. Community Edition will work fine. More information on running RStudio in Docker can be found here https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker/wiki/Using-the-RStudio-image. Caret examples are from Earl Glynn's talk.

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
sudo apt update
sudo apt install docker-ce docker-compose
sudo systemctl status docker
sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER} # add your id to docker group
su - ${USER} # re-login
id -nG # check if you are in docker group

To install docker-compose on CentOS 5 to work with Docker version 1.12.6

sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.19.0/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

User preferences for RStudio are not restored if you rebuild the Docker image. To restore the user preferences, follow the steps given below.

1. Customize docs/user-preferences.
2. Login in to Rstudio as described above. (Very important or you will need to rebuild)
3. Enter the container and execute ./bootup script

   docker exec -it drocker-ropensci bash
   cd /home/rstudio/docs && ./bootup
   

1. Change the password inside .makerc but do not check in this file. echo "PASSWORD=welcome" > .makerc && chmod 600 .makerc
2. Execute make all. Rstudio is at port 8787. Login with your unix user name. Shiny is at port 3838 serving /srv/shiny-server/. Execute make help to see all commands