r-packages-list/README.md

r-packages-list

List of R packages, required by some services. The packages can be sources from CRAN-like repositories, sources from github, or - preferred - packages in deb format.

install2r-packages.txt

That file is used by the Dockerfile that builds the Rstudio container images. Packages listed there are installed from a binary repository to speed up the installation procedure and preserve disk space.