future-kubernetes-docker

A Docker container for use in a Kubernetes cluster with the R future package. This Docker container image is available on Docker Hub as paciorek/future-kubernetes.

The future package provides for parallel computation in R on one or more machines.

• https://cran.r-project.org/package=future
• https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/future

This Docker container is used by this helm chart as the base container for the pods in a Kubernetes cluster providing access to the R future package via RStudio or R.

Creating this Docker container on Docker Hub

The container image was created on Docker Hub like this:

docker login --username=paciorek 
docker build -t future .
docker tag future paciorek/future-kubernetes:0.5
docker push paciorek/future-kubernetes:0.5

Acknowledgments

Thanks to the Rocker team for the container on which this is based.