H Appendix Additional resources

H.1 Editing this book

• Here are instructions for editing this book

H.2 Docker alternatives

• Choosing between Docker and Vagrant (Zait 2017)

H.3 Docker and R

• Noam Ross’ talk on Docker for the UseR (Ross 2018b) and his Slides (Ross 2018a) give a lot of context and tips.
• Good Docker tutorials
  • An introductory Docker tutorial (Srivastav 2018)
  • A Docker curriculum (Hall 2018)
• Scott Came’s materials about Docker and R on his website (Came 2018) and at the 2018 UseR Conference focus on R inside Docker.
• It’s worth studying the ROpensci Docker tutorial (ROpenSciLabs 2018)

H.4 Documentation for Docker and PostgreSQL

• The Postgres image documentation (Docker 2018d)
• PostgreSQL & Docker documentation (Docker 2018d)
• Dockerize PostgreSQL (Docker 2018b)
• Usage examples of PostgreSQL with Docker WARNING-EXPIRED CERTIFICATE 2018-12-20

H.5 SQL and dplyr

• Why SQL is not for analysis but dplyr is (Nishida 2016)
• Data Manipulation with dplyr (With 50 Examples) (ListenData.com 2016)

H.6 More Resources

• David Severski describes some key elements of connecting to databases with R for MacOS users (Severski 2018)
• This tutorial picks up ideas and tips from Ed Borasky’s Data Science pet containers (Borasky 2018), which creates a framework based on that Hack Oregon example and explains why this repo is named pet-sql.

References

Borasky, M. Edward (Ed). 2018. “Data Science Pet Containers.” 2018. https://github.com/znmeb/data-science-pet-containers.

Came, Scott. 2018. “Running R in Docker - Part 1 - Getting Started.” July 21, 2018. http://www.cascadia-analytics.com/2018/07/21/docker-r-p1.html.

Docker. 2018b. “Dockerize Postgresql | Docker Documentation.” 2018. https://docs.docker.com/engine/examples/postgresql_service/.

Docker. 2018d. “Postgres | Docker Documentation.” 2018. https://docs.docker.com/samples/library/postgres/.

Hall, Ben. 2018. “Learn Docker & Containers Using Interactive Browser-Based Scenarios.” 2018. https://katacoda.com/courses/docker.

ListenData.com. 2016. “Data Manipulation with Dplyr (with 50 Examples).” 2016. https://www.listendata.com/2016/08/dplyr-tutorial.html.

Nishida, Kan. 2016. “Why Sql Is Not for Analysis, but Dplyr Is.” August 5, 2016. https://blog.exploratory.io/why-sql-is-not-for-analysis-but-dplyr-is-5e180fef6aa7.

ROpenSciLabs. 2018. “R Docker Tutorial.” September 13, 2018. http://ropenscilabs.github.io/r-docker-tutorial/.

Ross, Noam. 2018a. “Docker for the UseR - Slides.” July 10, 2018. https://github.com/noamross/nyhackr-docker-talk/blob/master/Noam_Ross_DockerForTheUseR_nyhackr_2018-07-10.pdf.

Ross, Noam. 2018b. “Docker for the UseR - Video.” July 10, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=803oZI5dvAU.

Severski, David. 2018. “Database Connections.” 2018. https://github.com/davidski/database_connections.

Srivastav, Prakhar. 2018. “A Docker Tutorial for Beginners.” 2018. https://docker-curriculum.com/.

Zait, Mahmoud. 2017. “Vagrant Vs Docker.” July 29, 2017. https://medium.com/@Mahmoud_Zalt/vagrant-vs-docker-679c9ce4231b.