Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of cypress/SingularityDockerhub

Timestamp:

08/20/25 22:36:08 (8 hours ago)

Author:

cbaribault

Comment:

Added explanation for r-base

cypress/SingularityDockerhub

@@ -60 +60 @@
 == Example 2: Building a container including the latest version of R ==
 
-The first of this sequence of commands creates ‘r-base_latest.sif’, which is the Singularity Image. You can rename/transfer it as you like.
+The following command creates ‘r-base_latest.sif’, which is the Singularity Image. You can rename/transfer it as you like.
 
 {{{
 singularity pull docker://r-base:latest  # creating .sif file takes ~6 minutes
+}}}
+
+Next we can enter the container shell and interactively query the R environment.
+
+{{{
 singularity shell -s /bin/bash r-base_latest.sif
 Singularity> head -1 /etc/os-release
@@ -69 +74 @@
 Singularity> Rscript -e 'R.version.string'
 [1] "R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13)"
-Singularity>
+Singularity>exit
+}}}
+
+Alternatively, we can execute just a single command inside the container to query the R environment.
+
+{{{
+singularity exec r-base_latest.sif Rscript -e 'R.version.string'
+[1] "R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13)"
 }}}