Dockerfile and Singularity converter script for creating RStudio image for R 4.3.0, RStudio 2023.06

Dockerfile

FROM ubuntu:20.04

# Software versions
ARG R_VERSION=4.3.0
ARG RSTUDIO_VERSION=2023.06.0-421

# Locale configuration
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends locales
RUN echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen && \
  locale-gen en_US.utf8 && \
  /usr/sbin/update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 && \
  export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 && \
  export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

# Install R
RUN apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        software-properties-common dirmngr wget && \
  wget -qO- https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/marutter_pubkey.asc | \
    tee -a /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/cran_ubuntu_key.asc && \
  add-apt-repository \
    "deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs)-cran40/" && \
  apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    r-base=${R_VERSION}* \
    r-base-core=${R_VERSION}* \
    r-base-dev=${R_VERSION}* \
    r-recommended=${R_VERSION}* \
    r-base-html=${R_VERSION}* \
    r-doc-html=${R_VERSION}* \
    libcurl4-openssl-dev \
    libssl-dev \
    libxml2-dev \
    libcairo2-dev \
    libxt-dev \
    libopenblas-dev
    
# Install some build-expensive packages by Ubuntu package instead
RUN add-apt-repository "ppa:c2d4u.team/c2d4u4.0+" && \
	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
		r-cran-brms \
		r-cran-knitr \
		r-cran-lme4 \
		r-cran-lmertest \
		r-cran-plotrix \
		r-cran-ggplot2 \
		r-cran-devtools
    
# Add a default CRAN mirror
RUN echo "options(repos = c(CRAN = 'https://cran.rstudio.com/'), download.file.method = 'libcurl')" >> /usr/lib/R/etc/Rprofile.site

# Add a directory for host R libraries
RUN mkdir -p /library && \
        echo "R_LIBS_SITE=/library:\${R_LIBS_SITE}" >> /usr/lib/R/etc/Renviron.site

# Install nice-to-have R packages
RUN Rscript -e "install.packages(c('tidyverse'))"

# Install RStudio dependencies
RUN apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    ca-certificates \
    wget \
    gdebi-core

# Install RStudio
RUN wget \
    --no-verbose \
    -O rstudio-server.deb \
    "https://download2.rstudio.org/server/focal/amd64/rstudio-server-${RSTUDIO_VERSION}-amd64.deb" && \
  gdebi -n rstudio-server.deb && \
  rm -f rstudio-server.deb

# Clean up
RUN rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

Singularity.rstudio

Bootstrap: docker-daemon
From: rstudio:latest

%help
  This will run RStudio Server

%apprun rserver
  exec rserver "${@}"

%runscript
  exec rserver "${@}"

%environment
  export PATH=/usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin:${PATH}