Dockerfile for R with extra libraries

Dockerfile

FROM r-base

# Install some libraries that we need for the R packages we use
# with git we can use install_github("foo/bar") from R
RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y git libssl-dev libssh2-1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

COPY . /usr/local/src/myscripts
WORKDIR /usr/local/src/myscripts

# Run a script to build/install extra R libraries (e.g. quadratic optimization)
RUN Rscript install-libs.R

# Run this when the container starts
CMD ["Rscript", "myDemoScript.R"]