About

The binder environment of the Advanced Research Methods Bayesian Methods module.

Installed packages

The environment contains RStan and a number of additional packages.

nbgitpuller is also installed in the Binder environment so that it can be linked to R Projects hosted on GitHub. The .Rprofile file contains code to automatically load the project file from the linked GitHub repository.

To link with a R Project hosted on GitHub, check out the R Package containertools.

To find a list of the installed packages check Dockerfile.hub

Updating this binder

To update the R packages installed in this binder you can edit the file Dockerfile.hub. Once Dockerfile.hub is updated then run the following code:

make build
make push

To update binder specific details then update the file Dockerfile.

Any changes made to Dockerfile need to be pushed back to GitHub.