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Container Support

You can create Docker or OCI images of R packages using Bazel.

In your WORKSPACE file, load the Docker rules and specify the base R image.

# Change to the version of these rules you want and use sha256.
http_archive(
    name = "io_bazel_rules_docker",
    strip_prefix = "rules_docker-master",
    urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker/archive/master.tar.gz"],
)

load(
    "@io_bazel_rules_docker//container:container.bzl",
    "container_pull",
    container_repositories = "repositories",
)

container_repositories()

container_pull(
    name = "r_base",
    registry = "index.docker.io",
    repository = "rocker/r-base",
    tag = "latest",
)

r_library_image

In a BUILD file, define your library of R packages and install them in a Docker image using this rule. Dependencies are installed implicitly in an efficient layered mechanism.

load("@com_grail_rules_r//R:defs.bzl", "r_library")

r_library(
    name = "my_r_library",
    pkgs = [
        "//path/to/packageA:r_pkg_target",
        "//path/to/packageB:r_pkg_target",
    ],
)  

r_library_image(
    name = "my_r_library_image",
    base = "@r_base//image",
    library = "my_r_library",
    library_path = "r-libs",
)

The rule takes the same arguments as container_image, and additionally a library attribute. For more details on how the rule works, see the documentation in library.bzl.

Alternatively, if you want to use container_image rule directly for some reason, you can use the r_library_tar rule to provide a tar to the container.

load("@io_bazel_rules_docker//container:container.bzl", "container_image")

load("@com_grail_rules_r//R:defs.bzl", "r_library_tar")

r_library_tar(
    name = "my_r_library_archive",
    library = ":my_r_library",
    library_path = "r-libs",
)

container_image(
    name = "image",
    base = "@r_base//image",
    env = {"R_LIBS_USER": "/r-libs"},
    tars = [":my_r_library_arhive.tar"],
    repository = "my_repo",
)

r_binary_image

This rule wraps an r_binary target in a container, ideal for quickly setting up a containerized application. The collective R library that the binary depends on is not made available in an easy to use way in the container. Prefer r_library_image for such a use case.

The rule takes the same arguments as container_image, and additionally a binary attribute. For more details on how the rule works, see the documentation in binary.bzl.

load("@com_grail_rules_r//R:defs.bzl", "r_library")

r_binary(
    name = "my_r_binary",
    src = "my_r_binary.R",
    deps = [
        "//path/to/packageA:r_pkg_target",
        "//path/to/packageB:r_pkg_target",
    ],
)  

r_binary_image(
    name = "my_r_binary_image",
    base = "@r_base//image",
    binary = "my_r_binary",
)