- Original Message -
From: Bastian Schiffthaler bast...@bioinformatics.upsc.se
To: Martin Morgan mtmor...@fredhutch.org
Cc: bioc-devel@r-project.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 2:21:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Docker granularity: containers for individual R
packages
maybe starting the docker container in such a way that you have access
to your non-docker file system.
One way to achieve that is to mount a directory from your host system
inside the container:
# Creating a subdirectory in /home/rstudio and making it read/write
for all (permissions in
Hi, Wolfgang.
One way to think of docker is as a very efficient, self-contained virtual
machine. The operative term is self-contained. The docker containers
resemble real machines from the inside and the outside. These machines can
expose ports and can mount file systems, but something like
Dear Sean
I understand the second point. As for .Call not being the right paradigm, then
maybe some other method invocation mechanism? In essence, my question is
whether someone already has figured out whether new virtualisation tools can
help avoid some of the tradtional Makeovers/configure
