An Introduction to Rocker: Docker Containers for R

نویسندگان

  • Carl Boettiger
  • Dirk Eddelbuettel
چکیده

We describe the Rocker project, which provides a widely-used suite of Docker images with customized R environments for particular tasks. We discuss how this suite is organized, and how these tools can increase portability, scaling, reproducibility, and convenience of R users and developers.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1710.03675  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017