R is the the main programming language used by the bioinformatics team at the Inova Translational Medicine Institute. Rstudio server as an IDE has helped tremendously. However, there are currently several limitations:
- the rstudio server needs to be initiated by root
- each machine can only have one server running
- the user cannot change the version of R it points to
Container solutions like docker and singularity solve all three of these issues. In this session, I will show how we run rstudio servers and ensure reproducible research using both docker and singularity on a shared server. I will also show how to make use of the free resource provided by Google Cloud Shell to have your own rstudio server for quick prototyping. Finally, I will present the issues that we are still working out for discussions.