JE1.1: Course Set Up

Objective

• Set up GitHub account and student wiki
• Set up Docker for practical use in this course

Started: January 11, 2023 Finished: January 11, 2023 Time Estimated: 1 hour Time Spent: 1 hour

Procedure

I already had docker downloaded on my Mac Intel computer, but I did update it. I already had R and RStudio installed as well.

• At first, I tried to download the image by using the command docker pull risserlin/bcb420-base-image that was listed on the Docker Hub page for the image
• After looking at the R installation setup instructions, I realized that I needed the other commands to be able to map to a certain port and have a password
• I deleted the first image and reran the command found on the R setup instructions. This time, I made a proper BCB420 folder on my local machine as well
• Tested out the container on the designated port through my Brave browser
• Tried to create a folder and notebook on browser. Found it on my local machine

Results

• Was added to the BCB420 GitHub organization
• Installed the proper docker image and made sure the container was working
• Got my wiki page setup

Conclusion

I've never actually thought of using Docker in this context, but it makes so much sense. Excited to not need to wrangle with dependencies when installinging R-packages anymore

References

TODO: Give this a proper citation https://bcb420-2023.github.io/R_basics/r-install.html#r_docker