googleComputeEngineR (version 0.1.0)

gce_vm_template: Create a template container VM

Description

This lets you specify templates for the VM you wnat to launch It passes the template on to gce_vm_container

Usage

gce_vm_template(template = c("rstudio", "shiny", "opencpu", "r-base", "example", "rstudio-hadleyverse", "dynamic"), username = NULL, password = NULL, dynamic_image = NULL, image_family = "gci-stable", name, ...)

Arguments

template

The template available

username

username if needed (RStudio)

password

password if needed (RStudio)

dynamic_image

Supply an alternative to the default Docker image here to download

image_family

An image-family. It must come from the google-containers family.

name

The name of the resource, provided by the client when initially creating the resource

...

Other arguments passed to gce_vm_create

Value

The VM object

Details

Templates available are:

• rstudio An RStudio server docker image
• rstudio-hadleyverse RStudio with the tidyverse installed
• shiny A Shiny docker image
• opencpu An OpenCPU docker image
• r_base Latest version of R stable
• example A non-R test container running busybox
• dynamic Supply your own docker image to download such as rocker/verse

For dynamic templates you will need to launch the docker image with any ports you want opened, other settings etc. via docker_run.

Use dynamic_image to override the default rocker images e.g. rocker/shiny for shiny, etc.

Examples

## Not run: 
# 
#  library(googleComputeEngineR)
#  
#  ## make instance using R-base
#  vm <- gce_vm_template("r-base", predefined_type = "f1-micro", name = "rbase")
#  
#  ## run an R function on the instance within the R-base docker image
#  docker_run(vm, "rocker/r-base", c("Rscript", "-e", "1+1"), user = "mark")
#  #> [1] 2
#  
# 
# ## End(Not run)