Rocker Alternatives

rocker reviews and mentions

• Statistical Rethinking (2024 Edition)
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2024

  When I was working on the exercises, I found the Rocker project (https://rocker-project.org/) + DevContainers in VSCode to be a winning combination.

  Combined with OrbStack (for Docker on MacOS) and Quarto (which is a nice Markdown-based alternative to Jupyter) I would go so far as to call the experience pleasant.

  I don't remember running into version-related problems. Maybe I didn't make it as far in the book as you.

• What's the best way to manage packages for different versions of R?
  1 project | /r/datascience | 6 Dec 2023

  I am, strictly speaking, not a big R user, so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but if I were using R extensively, I would absolutely use the Rocker project containers to manage different R versions and different sets of dependencies for different projects: https://rocker-project.org/

• What is the 'Fedora experience' like for scientific computing?
  1 project | /r/Fedora | 7 Mar 2023

  Perhaps the main difference is r package are not available as binaries from rstudio (posit) repo but their is a cran2copr repo that works really well or you can still install from source in your home. For more info on cran2copr see: https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/fedora/ . Personally I am slowly moving to container based workflow with podman (and not toolbox as you end up having your r package install directly in home but that can be worked out by specifying the ribs path). I use docker image from the rocker project: https://rocker-project.org/

• [S] Step-by-step on how update to a specific version of R.
  1 project | /r/statistics | 4 Feb 2023

  If you have such specific requirements it’s often easier to use a container like the one from rocker (runs in der docker) instead. Btw wouldn’t be surprised if you’d get the latest version running in there as well.

• Temporarily Disable R Studio
  1 project | /r/Rlanguage | 27 Jan 2023

  Check out the Rocker Project, comprising of Docker containers for R, and can be used with RStudio. Also, virtual environments e.g., renv package can also help solve the package versioning issue, aside from containerization, and is transferable to a new machine via the renv::restore() function.

• rocker: R configurations for Docker
  1 project | /r/coolgithubprojects | 20 Dec 2022
• Tips for using docker
  1 project | /r/bioinformatics | 6 Dec 2022

  https://hub.docker.com/u/rocker has a lot of R-related images and they look pretty legit (look at "Tags" to find different versions). Don't use weird looking images. There's a lot of malware out there. Here's a guide on nice docker files: https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/dockerfile\_best-practices/

• Does anyone feel like R is actually vastly worse for dependency/environment management than Python?
  3 projects | /r/datascience | 15 Nov 2022

  Other people have mentioned renv and packrat already (hasn't renv basically superseded packrat at this point?), but what is also nearly ready-made to deal with this is rocker's R images. They have a bunch of images preconfigured for typical TidyVerse stuff, Shiny, etc.

• My experience of trying to get the latest software on Linux is as confusing (annoying?) as Windows!
  3 projects | /r/linux | 21 Oct 2022
• Trying To Run R Studio from Docker (rocker/rstudio) "Cannot Connect to R Session"
  1 project | /r/RStudio | 22 Dec 2021

  The Apple M1 is ARM. As far as my knowledge, ARM isn't supported. Looks like the rocker project is aware of it. Considering how popular these chips are, i'm confident a lot of smart people are working on it. :)

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