renv for Dockerfiles?

[MarkEdmondson1234]

May be easier to load renv for the package dependencies in a Dockerfile

[MarkEdmondson1234]

https://rstudio.github.io/renv/articles/docker.html

[MarkEdmondson1234]

Good example here: https://www.robertmylesmcdonnell.com/content/posts/docker/

FROM r-base:3.6.0
WORKDIR /main
RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get -y install python3.7 \
    && apt -y install python3-pip
RUN pip3 install pandas==0.25.1
# renv and R packages
ENV RENV_VERSION 0.9.2-31
RUN echo "options(renv.consent = TRUE)" >> .Rprofile
COPY renv.lock .
RUN R -e "install.packages('remotes', repos = c(CRAN = 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))"
RUN R -e "remotes::install_github('rstudio/renv@${RENV_VERSION}')"
RUN R -e "renv::restore(confirm = FALSE)"
RUN R -e "renv::snapshot(confirm = FALSE)"
CMD ["Rscript", "r_processx.R"]