Building the R binaries for the heroku-buildpack-r buildpack

Scripts for building the R buildpack for Heroku

Prerequisites

• AWS Account for S3
• Configured AWS credentials as per Standardized Way to Manage Credentials, using heroku-buildpack-r for the profile name
• Docker
• The heroku/cedar:14 docker image
• Heroku Account

Usage

The binaries for the buildpack are built using docker.

The build_with_docker script supports specifying the R version and optionally the build version number to use.

E.g.

To build R version 3.0.4, run

$ build_with_docker 3.0.4

or, with a build version of 20150301_4123

$ build_with_docker 3.0.4 20150301_4123