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Same as rocker-org/devcontainer-images#45

I am wondering if it is worth adding something like https://github.com/grantmcdermott/codespaces-r2u as a Template.

I didn't see the need to make it a Template since this would only add the r-apt Feature to ubuntu, but things like vscode-R settings are not included in the Feature so there may be value in being able to copy this from the beginning.

Note: The platform must be enforced to amd64 as arm64 is not supported.

@grantmcdermott Any thoughts?

I used the standard procedure to create a devcontainer.json with
"image": "ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer/tidyverse:4.3"

However, when I ran quarto preview the following error occured:

In grSoftVersion() :   
unable to load shared object '/usr/local/lib/R/modules//R_X11.so':   
libXt.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I was able to fix the error by adding sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get install -y libxt6 as a postCreateCommand.
But I still wanted to flag this, since I saw online that others have struggled with the same issue (e.g, https://notes.rmhogervorst.nl/post/2020/09/23/solving-libxt-so-6-cannot-open-shared-object-in-grdevices-grsoftversion/).

PS. Might be worth thinking of a sister r2u+RStudio template, as that's come up a few times on social media since I posted my example repo.

Originally posted by @grantmcdermott in #19 (comment)

https://github.com/devcontainers/template-starter

We should link to the Rocker Project website.