How about a shiny image about rocker

[wch]

FYI, I have one here: https://github.com/wch/dockr/tree/master/r-shiny-server

[eddelbuettel]

Someone already asked us over Twitter. @cboettig and I briefly discussed and there are two aspects:

• he and I can't spread ourselves too thinly, so not every potentially interesting container ought to be ours
• we're already in an org on GH and docker, so contributions are welcome (hint, hint).

So maybe @shabbychef wants to build this starting from the Dockerfile by @wch?

Lastly, we are also grateful for RStudio letting us distribute server. We don't want to stretch this too far but if "you guys" (so please check internally, @wch) are cool with it, we might.

It does fit the overall idea of Docker-izing quite well after all...

[wch]

I'm pretty sure that there's no problem with redistributing the open source versions of Shiny Server and RStudio Server, though I can check. We've been talking about releasing a semi-official Shiny Server docker image, but it might be a few weeks before that happens.

[eddelbuettel]

Just for the record here, and as previously communicated by email, we did ask for and got written permission to distribute the RStudio binary.

[shraddhapai]

Hi all, am in the same boat (not to stretch shipping metaphor too far) - wanting shiny app on Docker and was aiming to build one in the next week or so (unrealistic?), for a piece of research software. @shabbychef any luck with this? I'm new to Docker but have worked in R for 5 years and Shiny for about a year ; happy to contribute!

Also a bit confused - if @wch has already made a docker image for shiny (link above) what more needs to be done?

[cboettig]

@shraddhapai: As noted above, @wch already has a Dockerfile for this.

Winston, I think we're happy for you to fork a copy into rocker-org Github
organization and add it to the rocker namespace on DockerHub if you're
interested (and have cleared the legal permission on redistributing the
binary in this way of course).

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Hi all, am in the same boat (not to stretch shipping metaphor too far) -
wanting shiny app on Docker and was aiming to build one in the next week or
so (unrealistic?), for a piece of research software. @shabbychef
https://github.com/shabbychef any luck with this? I'm new to Docker but
have worked in R for 5 years and Shiny for about a year ; happy to
contribute!

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[eddelbuettel]

+1 -- just echoing what Carl said for some more oomph.

[shraddhapai]

Great, thank you @wch, and @eddelbuettel @cboettig for doing all the work.