Dockerfile

## largely based on openanalytics r-base image, itself largely based on rocker r-base image

FROM ubuntu:19.10

MAINTAINER "Simon Garnier" garnier@njit.edu

## Add user to 'staff' group, granting them write privileges to /usr/local/lib/R/site.library
RUN useradd docker \
	&& mkdir /home/docker \
	&& chown docker:docker /home/docker \
	&& addgroup docker staff

ENV TZ=America/New_York
RUN ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime && echo $TZ > /etc/timezone

RUN apt-get update \
	&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
		ed \
		less \
		locales \
		vim-tiny \
		wget \
		ca-certificates \
		apt-transport-https \
		gsfonts \
		gnupg \
	&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

## Configure default locale, see https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker/issues/19
RUN echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen \
	&& locale-gen en_US.utf8 \
	&& /usr/sbin/update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

ENV LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8
ENV LANG en_US.UTF-8

## Use Debian unstable via pinning -- new style via APT::Default-Release
RUN echo "deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu eoan-cran35/" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cran.list
RUN apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9


ENV R_BASE_VERSION 3.6.3

## Now install R and littler, and create a link for littler in /usr/local/bin
## Also set a default CRAN repo, and make sure littler knows about it too
RUN apt-get update \
	&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
		littler\
                r-cran-littler \
		r-base=${R_BASE_VERSION}* \
		r-base-dev=${R_BASE_VERSION}* \
		r-recommended=${R_BASE_VERSION}* \
        && echo 'options(repos = c(CRAN = "https://cloud.r-project.org/"), download.file.method = "libcurl")' >> /etc/R/Rprofile.site \
        && echo 'source("/etc/R/Rprofile.site")' >> /etc/littler.r \
	&& ln -s /usr/share/doc/littler/examples/install.r /usr/local/bin/install.r \
	&& ln -s /usr/share/doc/littler/examples/install2.r /usr/local/bin/install2.r \
	&& ln -s /usr/share/doc/littler/examples/installGithub.r /usr/local/bin/installGithub.r \
	&& ln -s /usr/share/doc/littler/examples/testInstalled.r /usr/local/bin/testInstalled.r \
	&& install.r docopt \
	&& rm -rf /tmp/downloaded_packages/ /tmp/*.rds \
	&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

CMD ["R"]