An image, based on the mangothecat/buildr
image based on the rocker/r-ver
base image, with a few system dependencies installed. Most noteably openjdk-8-jdk (R >= 3.3.0 on Debian stretch), or jdk 7 (R 3.2.X Debian Jessie)
The following R packages are pre-installed:
rJava
remotes
It also installs pandoc so you can do RMarkdown things without needing all of RStudio.
The intended useage is a base image for building R packages that have a Java dependency.