In lbartnik/chronicler: Binary History for R

In order to experiment with chronicler and test ideas described in the introductory vignette you need to install the chronicler package and its dependencies. It might be a lengthy process, especially that some of the third-party dependencies (like imager) have their own dependencies and sometimes require the development versions of certain Linux packages.

If you'd like to save yourself that work, please read on to see how to run the pre-configured Docker image. The image comes with chronicler and RStudio pre-installed, and also contains a sample artifact repository.

Docker in Linux

The chronicler's Docker image is available from Docker Hub. Go to lbartnik/chronicler to see the Docker Hub repository. It is configured to be run in Linux.

You need to have Docker installed in your system; follow the official Docker installtion guide.

Now that you have Docker installed, pull the chronicler image.

docker pull lbartnik/chronicler:18.04

Now you are ready to run RStudio from Docker with chronicler installed. Here is a script that makes it easy: it runs some basic checks and then starts RStudio inside Docker with access to your X server.

SCRIPT=rstudio-chronicler
IMAGE=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lbartnik/chronicler/master/inst/docker/${SCRIPT}
wget ${IMAGE} -O ./${SCRIPT}
bash ./${SCRIPT}