granek

Installing Singularity

1. Run sudo apt-get install squashfs-tools build-essential
2. Follow the  Singularity Installation instructions Option 1: Download latest stable release
3. Test singularity installation by running singularity run shub://vsoch/hello-world

Singularity Recipes

1. Read The Singularity Recipe
2. Look at this relatively simple Singularity recipe that I used to build a container that has the lftp program. Try to figure out what everything does

granek

# Following produces the error
> install.packages("magrittr")
Installing package into ‘/home/josh/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.2’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Error in download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) : 
  unsupported URL scheme
HTTPS CRAN mirror 

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