Dockerfile

FROM rocker/r-ubuntu

# add the maintainer of this Docker image (this should be you in this case)
LABEL maintainer "Adrian Hordyk <adrian@bluematterscience.com>"

# system libraries of general use
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
    sudo \
	build-essential \
    pandoc \
    pandoc-citeproc \
	libcurl4-openssl-dev \
    libcairo2-dev \
    libxt-dev \
    libssl-dev \
    libssh2-1-dev \
	libfontconfig1-dev \
	libxml2-dev \
	libharfbuzz-dev \
	libfribidi-dev \
	libtiff-dev

	#libcurl4-gnutls-dev \

# install basic shiny functionality to R
RUN R -e "install.packages(c('shiny', 'rmarkdown', 'remotes'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')"


# install Slick
RUN R -e "remotes::install_github('blue-matter/Slick', ref='shiny_live', dependencies=TRUE)"


# instruct Docker to expose port 3838 to the outside world
# (otherwise it will not be possible to connect to the Shiny application)
EXPOSE 3838

# finally, instruct how to launch the Shiny app when the container is started
CMD ["R", "-e", "Slick::App(host='0.0.0.0', port=3838)"]