Daniel Nüst

Probably using https://github.com/r-hub/r-minimal or https://gitlab.com/artemklevtsov/r-alpine

The `trestletech/plumber` image also sets an `ENTRYPOINT`, which breaks detection of installed packages: ```R > containerit::get_installed_packages("trestletech/plumber") Detected API version '1.40' is above max version '1.39'; downgrading INFO [2019-11-12 12:29:31] Running...

Instead of our own R > Dockerfile-string conversion, use the `dockerfiler`package: https://github.com/ColinFay/dockerfiler - create a PR to `dockerfiler` to not use deprecated `MAINTAINER` but create a label? - ..

How can containered workspaces use MRAN/checkpoint or GRAN?

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MRAN supports file style locations now: https://github.com/RevolutionAnalytics/checkpoint/pull/218 Also, this issue https://github.com/RevolutionAnalytics/checkpoint/issues/216#issuecomment-279167390 reports on how to make checkpoint work for an R Markdown document.

Fix stevedore on Appveyor

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Stevedore does not work on appveyor, so the vignettes and some tests do not work: ``` Rscript -e "stevedore::docker_available(); stevedore::docker_client()$api_version()" [1] FALSE Error in py_module_import(module, convert = convert) : ImportError:...

See how xml2 is doing it!

Package a session with versioned system dependencies

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As becomes clear in the [discussion on geospatial libraries in Rocker](https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker/issues/213), the versions of linked external libraries matter. _Can we support packaging explicit version of linked libraries?_ ```R > extSoftVersion()...

Docker Hub API and sysreqs API are repeatedly called from the package. The user experience might be better if we cache the responses, e.g. using https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/httpcache/

Extending #27 Relevant to all dialogs: - checkbox for versions - maintainer text field - image - Change the "Done" text to "Create" or something else - ... New features:...