Singularity R: rstudio

Singularity image for RStudio Desktop based on the r-base docker image.

Build

You can build a local Singularity image named rstudio.3.4.4.simg with:

$ sudo singularity build rstudio.3.4.4.simg Singularity

Deploy

Instead of building it yourself you can download the pre-built image from Singularity Hub with:

singularity pull --name rstudio.3.4.4.simg shub://mjstealey/rstudio

Usage

Help

$ singularity help rstudio.3.4.4.simg


  RStudio Desktop version 1.1.442
  R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15) -- "Someone to Lean On"

  Usage:
  $ singularity run rstudio.3.4.4.simg [args]
  $ singularity run --app R rstudio.3.4.4.simg [args]
  $ singularity run --app Rscript rstudio.3.4.4.simg [args]
  $ singularity run --app rstudio rstudio.3.4.4.simg

Run

No particular command is launched using the default run command, rather it is left to the user to specify:

singularity run rstudio.3.4.4.simg [args]

Where [args] is generally one of {rstudio, R [args], Rscript [args]}

R

The R command is launched as an explicit app:

singularity run --app R rstudio.3.4.4.simg [args]

Example:

$ singularity run --app R rstudio.3.4.4.simg --version
R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15) -- "Someone to Lean On"
Copyright (C) 2018 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License versions 2 or 3.
For more information about these matters see
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Rscript

The Rscript command is launched as an explicit app:

singularity run --app Rscript rstudio.3.4.4.simg [args]

Example:

$ singularity run --app Rscript rstudio.3.4.4.simg --version
R scripting front-end version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15)

RStudio

The rstudio command is launched as an explicit app:

singularity run --app rstudio rstudio.3.4.4.simg

Example:

$ singularity run --app rstudio rstudio.3.4.4.simg
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

RStudio Desktop UI: (using X11)

NOTE:

• The LibGL error: errors were observed while testing using a remote CentOS 7 VM to run the Singularity image and the UI was rendered using X11. No other errors were denoted during testing.

• On exit, the terminal displayed:

  QApplication::qAppName: Please instantiate the QApplication object first

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/mjstealey/rstudio.

License

The code is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.