Hello,

I am using docker for continuous integration and I need devtools for package building and testing. Is there a docker container available on dockerhub that has both bioconductor configured and devtools installed? This would increase the speed for my building and testing jobs.

Thank you very much.

Not directly as devtools isn't a Bioconductor package and isn't a requirement for Bioconductor packages. However we encourage you to look at the bioconductor_full docker available via dockerhub. It is the bioconductor docker image recommended. You could always update the image locally to install devtools. It is also possible to link a docker image with a local repository of installed packages so it is available for use with the docker image.

 docker run                                     \
      -it                                        \
      --user bioc                                \
      -v ~/host-site-library:/usr/local/lib/R/host-site-library \
      bioconductor/bioconductor_full:devel       \
      R

The -v you would update ~/host-site-library to be the path on your local system where packages are installed to mount to your docker image. If you had devtools installed there, it would be available.