[OOD-users] updated Rstudio singularity container?

[Rodgers, Morgan E.]

Susan,


We have been looking into this for a while and have recently rolled out an alterative solution based around Singularity. The idea is that everything RStudio needs is bind-mounted into the container from the host, and /tmp is overridden. We have had it in production at OSC for a few weeks now, and it is now our recommended solution.


The major advantage to this method is that it exposes everything that the user would normally be able to access on the host (including build tools and alternative R versions) without having to update the Singularity image.


I added https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/master/app-development/tutorials-interactive-apps/add-rstudio.html to explain the process, as well as

https://github.com/OSC/bc_example_rstudio.

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Subject: [OOD-users] updated Rstudio singularity container?

Are there any plans to release a new singularity container for Rstudio that works with a newer release of Rstudio?  We have a professor who would like to use it for his class and prefers a later release.

The version we are using was provided by Jeremy Nicholas who is no longer with OSC.  Our security team was not thrilled with us using proot so a container was the alternative.

Has anyone in OOD-land figured out a secure way of running Rstudio without proot using a more recent release of Rstudio?

TIA - Susan

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