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Support manual installation of required libraries

Open nuest opened this issue 7 years ago • 0 comments

sysreqs might not provide all required information, so advanced users should be able to provide installation instructions somehow.

Users could simply do this within their R Markdown document with system() calls, but that's not very nice, and while transparent might lead to people hiding these functions etc.

Ideas

  • [ ] support an install.R file, comparable to rocker/binder (automatically add a COPY statement if file is found, RUN it in the Dockerfile)
  • [ ] check apt.txt approach (or discussions) in binder
  • [ ] add a wrapper for RUN statements to be added to dockerfile(...)
  • [ ] ~~parse and "extend" existing Dockerfile~~ error prone, complicated

nuest avatar Jan 26 '18 17:01 nuest