Consider including rwasm as part of the webR docker image

[JosiahParry]

I'm trying to build my own packages to work with webR. However it's been a very long time just installing the {rwasm} package. We're nigh on 35 minutes now. It would be great if the package was included in the Docker image so that the majority of time is dedicated to building other R package instead of the rwasm package. Or, perhaps the dependency tree can be made smaller?

Following the instructions of

install.packages("pak") pak::pak("r-wasm/rwasm")

many R packages are installed—including {dplyr} for example. Perhaps this can be made a bit smaller at a later point?

[georgestagg]

See also r-wasm/actions#10.

As of afaf4dc4e0092d18eaf781f65a1b91a74f4c0c26 rwasm is included in the webR development docker image:

$ docker pull ghcr.io/r-wasm/webr:main
main: Pulling from r-wasm/webr
[...]
Status: Downloaded newer image for ghcr.io/r-wasm/webr:main
ghcr.io/r-wasm/webr:main

$ docker run -it --rm ghcr.io/r-wasm/webr:main
root@docker-desktop:~# R
R version 4.4.0 (2024-04-24) -- "Puppy Cup"
[...]
> library(rwasm)
Targeting Wasm packages for R 4.4.0
With `WEBR_ROOT` directory: /opt/webr
With `EMSCRIPTEN_ROOT` directory: /opt/emsdk/upstream/emscripten
> 

Thanks for the push!