{dockerizer} is a small package to take analyses written on your machine and write/build dockerfiles/images so that they can be run by someone else.

{dockerizer} requires that your analysis project uses {renv} to manage packages.

In your analysis folder, run write_dockerfile() to create a dockerfile with the appropriate arguments for your project. See ?write_dockerfile for what arguments can be specified.

Once the dockerfile is written, you can edit the file as you see fit or use the build and image_name arguments to build the image upon being written.

Once the image is built, the easiest way to run the container is

docker run -p 8787:8787 -v $(pwd):/home/rstudio -e USER={username} -e PASSWORD={password} --name {container_name} -d {image_name}

You can then connect to an rstudio server at https://localhost:8787/ (or whatever port you specified in your docker run command). From there, you will need to install your packages using renv::restore().