The Rockerverse: Packages and Applications for Containerisation with R

Daniel Nüst; Dirk Eddelbuettel; Dom Bennett; Robrecht Cannoodt; Dav Clark; Gergely Daróczi; Mark Edmondson; Colin Fay; Ellis Hughes; Lars Kjeldgaard; Sean Lopp; Ben Marwick; Heather Nolis; Jacqueline Nolis; Hong Ooi; Karthik Ram; Noam Ross; Lori Shepherd; Péter Sólymos; Tyson Lee Swetnam; Nitesh Turaga; Charlotte Van Petegem; Jason Williams; Craig Willis; Nan Xiao

doi:10.32614/rj-2020-007

The Rockerverse: Packages and Applications for Containerisation with R

Daniel Nüst, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Dom Bennett, Robrecht Cannoodt, Dav Clark, Gergely Daróczi, Mark Edmondson, Colin Fay, Ellis Hughes, Lars Kjeldgaard, Sean Lopp, Ben Marwick, Heather Nolis, Jacqueline Nolis, Hong Ooi, Karthik Ram, Noam Ross, Lori Shepherd, Péter Sólymos, Tyson Lee SwetnamNitesh Turaga, Charlotte Van Petegem, Jason Williams, Craig Willis, Nan Xiao

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The Rocker Project provides widely used Docker images for R across different application scenarios. This article surveys downstream projects that build upon the Rocker Project images and presents the current state of R packages for managing Docker images and controlling containers. These use cases cover diverse topics such as package development, reproducible research, collaborative work, cloud-based data processing, and production deployment of services. The variety of applications demonstrates the power of the Rocker Project specifically and containerisation in general. Across the diverse ways to use containers, we identified common themes: reproducible environments, scalability and efficiency, and portability across clouds. We conclude that the current growth and diversification of use cases is likely to continue its positive impact, but see the need for consolidating the Rockerverse ecosystem of packages, developing common practices for applications, and exploring alternative containerisation software.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	437-461
Number of pages	25
Journal	R Journal
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.32614/rj-2020-007
State	Published - 2020

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Numerical Analysis
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

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Nüst, D., Eddelbuettel, D., Bennett, D., Cannoodt, R., Clark, D., Daróczi, G., Edmondson, M., Fay, C., Hughes, E., Kjeldgaard, L., Lopp, S., Marwick, B., Nolis, H., Nolis, J., Ooi, H., Ram, K., Ross, N., Shepherd, L., Sólymos, P., ... Xiao, N. (2020). The Rockerverse: Packages and Applications for Containerisation with R. R Journal, 12(1), 437-461. https://doi.org/10.32614/rj-2020-007

Nüst, D, Eddelbuettel, D, Bennett, D, Cannoodt, R, Clark, D, Daróczi, G, Edmondson, M, Fay, C, Hughes, E, Kjeldgaard, L, Lopp, S, Marwick, B, Nolis, H, Nolis, J, Ooi, H, Ram, K, Ross, N, Shepherd, L, Sólymos, P, Swetnam, TL, Turaga, N, Petegem, CV, Williams, J, Willis, C & Xiao, N 2020, 'The Rockerverse: Packages and Applications for Containerisation with R', R Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 437-461. https://doi.org/10.32614/rj-2020-007

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