In the first article of this series, I built an Alpine-based Docker image with R base packages from Alpine’s native repositories, as well as one image with R compiled from source code. The images are hosted on Docker Hub, velaco/alpine-r repository...

The Rocker Project maintains the official Docker images of interest to R users. I use their images as a base to deploy containerized Shiny apps, but the virtual size of the images I build tends to fall in the range between 400 and 600 MB. To reduce t...

“How far can users’ tweets spread thanks to their followers’ retweets?” I asked myself one day. It’s important to note that I was thinking in terms of degrees of separation rather than geographic distances. For example, if one of your followe...