Docker container R

Overview

Teaching: 5 min min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• How to run R container in Palmetto HPC

Objectives

• Download R Studio container

• Run RStudio GUI

Create RStudio from docker container

Request for a compute node

mkdir ~/rstudio
cd rstudio
mkdir var
singularity build rstudio.img docker://rocker/rstudio
SINGULARITYENV_PASSWORD=abc123 SINGULARITYENV_S6_READ_ONLY_ROOT=1 singularity run -B ~/rstudio/var:/var rstudio.img

Use Socket Proxy forward to access the rstudio server at PALMETTO_NODE:8787

https://www.palmetto.clemson.edu/palmetto/advanced/proxy/

Key Points

• R, container