Revolution Analytics Blog Easy R Tutorials with Dev Containers

Ever written a tutorial for R — or simply shared some R code with someone — and been told that your code doesn't work on their machine? There's now an easy way to solve that problem: Dev Containers. Dev Containers are a standardized container format designed for interactive use. You can set up a Dev Container with the specific version of R, R packages, and other software to guarantee that your R code will run on their machine just as it did on yours. Dev Containers are 100% open source and integrated with Visual Studio Code, which provides a convenient...