Mara Averick has some resources to help you get started with running R in a Docker container:
liftr 📦 by Nan Xiao
🐳📜 Docker your docs: “liftr: Containerize R Markdown Documents” by @road2stathttps://t.co/nSN1ylZXsy #rstats #docker #rmarkdown pic.twitter.com/9xJQ4rANjy
— Mara Averick (@dataandme) October 15, 2017
liftr aims to solve the problem of persistent reproducible reporting. To achieve this goal, it extends the R Markdown metadata format, and uses Docker to containerize and render R Markdown documents.
Click through for those resources as well as an addictive 8-bit animated GIF.