Re: [Bioc-devel] Docker granularity: containers for individual R packages, running on a normal R installation?

2015-04-14 Thread Martin Morgan
On 04/14/2015 01:17 PM, Wolfgang Huber wrote: Dear Sean I understand the second point. As for .Call not being the right paradigm, then maybe some other method invocation mechanism? In essence, my question is whether someone already has figured out whether new virtualisation tools can help avoi

Re: [Bioc-devel] Docker granularity: containers for individual R packages, running on a normal R installation?

2015-04-14 Thread Michael Lawrence
That's why virtual runtimes, like Java, were invented. On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Wolfgang Huber wrote: > Dear Sean > I understand the second point. As for .Call not being the right paradigm, > then maybe some other method invocation mechanism? In essence, my question > is whether someone

Re: [Bioc-devel] Docker granularity: containers for individual R packages, running on a normal R installation?

2015-04-14 Thread Wolfgang Huber
Dear Sean I understand the second point. As for .Call not being the right paradigm, then maybe some other method invocation mechanism? In essence, my question is whether someone already has figured out whether new virtualisation tools can help avoid some of the tradtional Makeovers/configure pai

Re: [Bioc-devel] Fwd: Proposed biocViews for Hi-C assay

2015-04-14 Thread Nathaniel Hayden
'HiC' has been added to the biocViews vocabulary under Technology -> Sequencing. I've also added the HiC biocViews term to packages diffHic, GenomicInteractions, GOTHiC, HiTC, and Sushi. Tomorrow one should be able to navigate to Technology -> Sequencing -> HiC on the devel biocViews pages at

Re: [Bioc-devel] request for more notices about build issues

2015-04-14 Thread Michael Love
works for me. Thanks Dan. On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: > > > - Original Message - >> From: "Michael Love" >> To: bioc-devel@r-project.org >> Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 11:03:02 AM >> Subject: [Bioc-devel] request for more notices about build issues >> >> dear

Re: [Bioc-devel] request for more notices about build issues

2015-04-14 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Love" > To: bioc-devel@r-project.org > Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 11:03:02 AM > Subject: [Bioc-devel] request for more notices about build issues > > dear core Bioc-ers, > > It would be nice to have more devel mailing list notices about large >

Re: [Bioc-devel] Docker granularity: containers for individual R packages, running on a normal R installation?

2015-04-14 Thread Sean Davis
Hi, Wolfgang. One way to think of docker is as a very efficient, self-contained virtual machine. The operative term is "self-contained". The docker containers resemble real machines from the inside and the outside. These machines can expose ports and can mount file systems, but something like .

[Bioc-devel] Docker granularity: containers for individual R packages, running on a normal R installation?

2015-04-14 Thread Wolfgang Huber
Is it possible to ship individual R packages (that e.g. contain complex, tricky to compile C/C++ libraries or other system resources) as Docker containers (or analogous) so that they would still run under a “normal”, system-installed R. Or, is it possible to provide a Docker container that conta