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+FROM databricksruntime/standard:latest
+
+# We are using the more secure long form of pgp key ID of marutter@gmail.com
+# based on these instructions (avoiding firewall issue for some users):
+# https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/#secure-apt
+RUN apt-get update \
+&& DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" apt-get install --yes software-properties-common apt-transport-https \
+&& gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9 \
+&& gpg -a --export E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add - \
+&& add-apt-repository 'deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/' \
+&& apt-get update \
+&& DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" apt-get install --yes \
+libssl-dev \
+r-base \
+r-base-dev \
+&& add-apt-repository -r 'deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/' \
+&& apt-key del E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9 \
+&& apt-get clean \
+&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
+
+# hwriterPlus is used by Databricks to display output in notebook cells
+# Rserve allows Spark to communicate with a local R process to run R code
+# shiny is used by Databricks interpreter
+RUN R -e "install.packages(c('hwriter', 'TeachingDemos', 'htmltools'))"
+RUN R -e "install.packages('https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/hwriterPlus/hwriterPlus_1.0-3.tar.gz', repos=NULL, type='source')"
+RUN R -e "install.packages('Rserve', repos='http://rforge.net/', type='source')"
+RUN R -e "install.packages('shiny', repos='https://cran.rstudio.com/')"
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+# Standard Container with R Runtime support
+
+This image uses the databricksruntime/standard:latest and installs R runtime on top of that. It supports DBR 8.X ()
+
+## Supported Features
+  - Everything supported in [standard image](https://github.com/databricks/containers/tree/master/ubuntu/standard) (Python, Scala, Java, DBFS, SSH, %sh, etc)
+  - R