7 - Packaging, Docker :: Data Science Programming Methods :: Spring 2025

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7 - Packaging, Docker

Objectives

Introduction to R package building
R package testing (RUnit, testthat, tinytest)
What is Docker about?
How do I use Docker?
Examples of Docker use

Topics

Packages
- Why packages?
- Basic package structure
Package building
Package testing
Introducing Basics of Docker
Examples of Using Docker
Creating Containers interactively
Creating Containers via Dockerfile
Example of running RStudio Server via Docker

Core Material

Lecture Slides

Lecture Videos

Video 35 (2025): Week 12 (Box)
Video 36 (2021): Package Building (Box, captioned), also Video 36: Package Building (uncaptioned)
Video 37 (2021): Package Testing (Box, captioned), also Video 37: Package Testing (uncaptioned)
Video 38 (2024): Week 13 (Box)
Video 39 (2021): Docker Intro (Box, captioned), also Video 39: Docker Intro (uncaptioned)
Video 40 (2021): Docker Build + RStudio Example (Box, captioned), also Video 40: Docker Build + RStudio Example (uncaptioned)

Additional Resources

Writing R Extensions manual (also included with every copy of R)
R Packages (1st ed), Wickham, 2015
R Packages (2nd ed), Wickham and Bryan, 2020

Julia Evans

A few of her comics made it onto the lecture slides and into the shell and git section. Here are some more related to Docker: