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title: Containers
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The [rocker](https://hub.docker.com/u/rocker) project provides container images for R since several years.
Since recently, the images are multi-arch, i.e. `arm64` is supported alongside `amd64`.

Yet, other distributions than Ubuntu are missing and don't use the devXY binaries out of the box.
To simplify running containers that make use of the devXY R binaries implicitly, the following images are provided:

- [devxygmbh/r-alpine](https://hub.docker.com/r/devxygmbh/r-alpine)
- [devxygmbh/r-ubuntu](https://hub.docker.com/r/devxygmbh/r-ubuntu)

These have the devXY repositories configured by default and can be used efficiently without further configuration changes.

In contrast to the minimal `rocker/r-ver` images, the `r-ubuntu` images contain a few additional system libraries which are essential for troublefree R usage.

The following screencast shows how quickly the `r-alpine` image can be used to install the full {tidyverse} package universe in just under 30s:

<div style="padding:59.12% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/1035389676?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" title="Alpine package binaries: Install tidyverse"></iframe></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script>

::: {.callout-note}
The performance of this screencast (and your local experience) depends on a few factors: local download speed, cached binaries in the CDN, proximity to a local edge node of the CDN and your CPU performance and finally the `Ncpus` option in R, defining how many installations are performed in parallel (by default 1).
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