rserve-sandbox-bin/README.md

# rserve-sandbox-bin

A precompiled version of `rserve-sandbox`.

## NOTE

The Makefile in this branch is not intendended to be run manually.

Post 
[installation](https://frnmst.github.io/swish-installer/swish-installer.html#Install-actions)
and
[remove](https://frnmst.github.io/swish-installer/swish-installer.html#Remove-actions)
hooks are needed before you can actually run this.

## What is this about

This is an alternative method to install 
[rserve-sandbox](https://github.com/frnmst/rserve-sandbox)

The advantage of using this method is that no building or dependency 
downloading is required, meaning that there is supposedly no risk of failure
during the setup phase. The download time is however much longer.

This image was obtained with

    $ sudo -u rsd docker save rserve > rserve.tar

using the [AUR package](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rserve-sandbox-docker) 
of `rserve-sandbox`.

## Installation

You need to install and enable the Docker service.

### Makefile targets

- `load`
  - Loads the Docker image `rserve` available in this repository.

- `remove`
  - Removes the current image.

- `run`
  - Starts the Rserve container.  This creates a Unix domain
    socket `/home/rserve/socket` that allows contacting
    the R server.

- `stop`
  - Stops and removes the current container.

## License

Copyright (c) 2017, Franco Masotti.
2-Clause BSD (aka FreeBSD).