Bootstrap: docker From: debian:bookworm-slim %labels Description RStudio Server without bundled R - allows using external R installations RStudio_Version 2026.01.0-392 %post # Install system libraries for R package compilation apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ locales \ libcurl4-openssl-dev \ libicu-dev \ libpng-dev \ libglpk-dev \ libfontconfig1-dev \ libfreetype6-dev \ libx11-dev \ libxml2-dev \ gdal-bin \ libgdal-dev \ libudunits2-dev \ cmake \ libcairo2-dev \ libgit2-dev \ libhdf5-dev \ libmagick++-dev \ libharfbuzz-dev \ libfribidi-dev \ libwebp-dev \ wget \ gdebi-core \ libssl-dev \ libpq5 \ libclang-dev \ libc6 \ libpam0g \ psmisc \ lsof \ sudo \ libsqlite3-0 \ lsb-release \ ca-certificates # Generate locale sed -i '/en_US.UTF-8/s/^# //g' /etc/locale.gen locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 # Download and install RStudio Server # Change RSTUDIO_VERSION to match your R's OpenSSL version: # - 2026.01.0-392: OpenSSL 3.x # - 2023.12.1-402: OpenSSL 1.1.x # Check https://download2.rstudio.org/server/jammy/amd64/ for available versions RSTUDIO_VERSION="2026.01.0-392" wget -q https://download2.rstudio.org/server/jammy/amd64/rstudio-server-${RSTUDIO_VERSION}-amd64.deb # Install without R dependency (--force-depends skips R requirement) dpkg --force-depends -i rstudio-server-${RSTUDIO_VERSION}-amd64.deb || true apt-get install -f -y rm rstudio-server-${RSTUDIO_VERSION}-amd64.deb # Create necessary directories for RStudio Server mkdir -p /var/run/rstudio-server /var/lib/rstudio-server /var/log/rstudio-server # Cleanup to reduce image size apt-get clean rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /var/cache/apt/archives/* /var/cache/debconf/* rm -rf /usr/share/doc/* /usr/share/man/* /usr/share/info/* /usr/share/lintian/* find /usr/share/locale -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ! -name 'en_US' -exec rm -rf {} + rm -rf /usr/lib/rstudio-server/resources/{presentation,tutorial,templates} find / -type f \( -name "*.pyc" -o -name "*.bak" -o -name "*~" \) -delete 2>/dev/null || true rm -rf /var/log/* %environment export PATH=/usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin:$PATH export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 %runscript echo "RStudio Server (no-R) container" exec "$@" %help RStudio Server container WITHOUT bundled R. Based on debian:bookworm-slim with system libraries for R package compilation. Usage: sbatch rstudio_cumc_cloud.sh -i -s /path/to/rstudio-no-r.sif To change RStudio version, edit RSTUDIO_VERSION and rebuild: singularity build --fakeroot rstudio-no-r.sif rstudio.def